Re: Looking for guinea pigs

did it - I'm on.

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: cathy carpenter <cathyc@rnet.com>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Sun, 2 Feb 2003 18:02:40 -0600

>Donna,  ????
>Cathy
>On Sunday, February 2, 2003, at 05:51 PM, Donna wrote:
>
>> You missed the ----.---- between hort.net
>>
>> Try again!
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
>>> Behalf Of cathy carpenter
>>> Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 5:53 PM
>>> To: gardenchat@hort.net
>>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Looking for guinea pigs
>>>
>>> I tried to sign up, and my request was returned with the following
>>> message: The following addresses   had permanent fatal errors --
>>> <majordomo@hortnet> (reason: 550 Host unknown)
>>> Cathy
>>> On Sunday, February 2, 2003, at 01:51 PM, Christopher P. Lindsey
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>
>>>>    I'm pretty close to unveiling a new feature of hort.net and am
>>>>    looking for guinea pigs.
>>>>
>>>>    As part of an effort to make the hort.net mailing lists more
>>>>    cohesive and easier to navigate, I've created a new interface
>>>>    to the various lists.  Basically, this means that you can read
>>>>    your gardenchat, perennials, ferns (and the list of hort.net
>>>>    lists goes on) mail from a news reader instead of your email
>>>>    program.
>>>>
>>>>    There are many benefits to this scheme:
>>>>
>>>>       1.  You can easily view messages in any format: threaded,
>>>>           by date, author, etc.
>>>>
>>>>       2.  You only view the subjects of the messages, then click
>>>>           on the ones that you want to view.  It saves us both
>>>>           bandwidth and download time.
>>>>
>>>>       3.  The news archive is kept indefinitely, so you don't have
>> to
>>>>           worry about missing messages if you're out of town or have
>>>>           a small mailbox that might bounce if you're over quota
>>>>
>>>>       4.  Since people view messages when they want to instead of
>>>>           having us send them all out at once, it distributes our
>>>>           bandwidth usage more evenly (which is a good thing).  It
>>>>           saves hort.net money (we pay much more than you probably
>>>>           think for our bandwidth right now)
>>>>
>>>>    Anyhow, I'm looking for people who would be willing to try this.
>>>>    Before I start giving access to people I'd like to have some
>>>>    discussions about the way that I'm setting things up.  I have
>>>>    some ideas, but I want to make sure that they're all OK with
>> everyone
>>>>    before I program it all in.
>>>>
>>>>    OK, the meat of this message...  If you're interested in being a
>> beta
>>>>    tester and/or being involved in the decision-making process, send
>>>>    an email to
>>>>
>>>>       majordomo@hort.net
>>>>
>>>>    with the body of your message containing the single line
>>>>
>>>>       subscribe admin-nntp
>>>>
>>>>    You'll get a confirmation message back; just reply to it and
>> you'll
>>>>    be signed up!  We'll use that list to talk about stuff.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Chris
>>>>
>>>>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX/zone 8A


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