[ADMIN] List information

Before I launch into this, I'd like to ask everybody to be a little
more careful in their postings to the list.  Although I'm thrilled 
to see it used so much, I do think that we could better benefit by
keeping personal replies personal and not quoting unnecessary parts
of messages.  It saves on our bandwidth and makes the list so much
more readable.  

Thanks.

Chris

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IN THIS VOLUME:

      I.  List membership
     II.  List etiquette
    III.  List changes
     IV.  Subscription / unsubscription information
      V.  Links / URLs

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I.    List membership

   The list now has 336 regular subscribers and 103 digest 
   subscribers.  

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II.  List etiquette

   A.  PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE do not try formatting your messages
       with special highlighting, bold face, or anything else.  When
       you do this, you make messages unreadable for a lot of 
       members.  It also can mess up the archives and makes the
       digest version very hard for many people to read.

   B.  NO ATTACHMENTS.  Attachments take up a lot of disk space, and
       accordingly lots of bandwidth.  Imagine that you send out a 40K
       picture to the list.  It goes out to 454 list members, so that's
       454 x 40,000 bytes sent out.  That's over 18 megabytes sent
       just because of one message!  When messages that large are sent,
       it slows down services for the rest of us.

   C.  QUOTING OF MESSAGES.  When replying to a message, only 
       resend the relevant parts.  Don't just reply with a single
       line included with the original message in its entirety.  
       It's just rude and nearly unreadable.

   D.  Other netiquette information is available at

       http://www.mallorn.com/lists/netiquette.html

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III.  List changes

   Some time in the next few days I'll be changing the way in 
  which the list is set up.  The most noticeable change is that
  any messages sent with attachments will be passed through to
  the list, but mail will be automatically sent to the sender asking
  him or her to turn off attachments on their mail program.

  I may disallow attachments entirely in the future just because
  of their sheer nuisance value.  They make the list almost 
  unusable for subscribers in digest mode.

  I will also probably remove the advertisements inserted at
  the bottom of some email message (i.e. "Do you Yahoo", etc),
  again because of their high annoyance level.

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IV.   Subscription / unsubscription information

   A.  Subscriptions

       To subscribe to the mailing list, send mail to 

          majordomo@mallorn.com

       with the body of your message containing the single line

       subscribe perennials

       If you want to subscribe to the digest version, send mail
       to

          majordomo@mallorn.com

       with the body of your message containing the single line

       subscribe perennials-digest

   B.  Unsubscriptions

       To unsubscribe from the mailing list, send mail to 

          majordomo@mallorn.com

       with the body of your message containing the single line

       unsubscribe perennials

       If you want to unsubscribe from the digest version, send mail
       to

          majordomo@mallorn.com

       with the body of your message containing the single line

       unsubscribe perennials-digest

   C.  Problems

       If you run into any problems with subscription or unsubscription
       requests, send mail to 

          perennials-owner@mallorn.com

       Whoever is maintaining the list at the time (probably me) will
       be glad to help you out.

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V.    Links / URLs

   A.  The official list archives can be found (with a search engine)
       at

          http://www.mallorn.com/lists/perennials/

       The archives can be indispensable in finding past information.
       If you have a question, search for it in the archives!  It might
       give you the answer that you're looking for, or maybe it will
       prompt questions that are more targetted.

   B.  I'm always looking for perennials URLs.  If you know of any that
       you'd like to see posted to this newsletter next month, send
       them to

          urls@mallorn.com

       I'll add them all next month.

   C.  Here are some interesting URLs that were suggested in the
      past month:

       The Geraniaceae Group -- all about Geranianceae
        http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/3139/

       Gothic Gardening
       http://www.gothic.net/~malice/

       American Dahlia Society
       http://www.dahlia.com/

       Chrysantemums -- Lots of them!
       http://www.greenheart.com/karenw/garden/fallgarden97.html

       Texas A&M Bioinformatics Working Group
       http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/tamuherb.htm

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