ADMIN: list information
- To: perennials@lorien.mallorn.com
- Subject: ADMIN: list information
- From: "* P* L* <lindsey@mallorn.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 00:36:36 -0500 (CDT)
Well, I seem to remember mumbling something about a monthly notice
to members of the list in one of my less lucid moments. What was
I thinking?!? With spring in full swing and personal/work-related
projects picking up, I don't have time to write this! But I'll
try... :)
IN THIS VOLUME:
I. List membership
II. What's new
III. List etiquette
IV. Subscription / unsubscription information
V. Links / URLs
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I. List membership
The list now has 357 regular subscribers and 97 digest
subscribers. We've been growing quite a bit!
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II. What's new
I'm trying to put together a list of books that are all-encompassing
for new and experienced members of the list. The list is available
at
http://www.mallorn.com/bookstore/lists/perennials.cgi
If you want to order any of the books, please go ahead -- the money
that we get from Amazon.com goes towards the maintenance of the
mailing lists, etc.
But I'm not including it here to get you to buy books. I just
REALLY want your input about what references you feel are absolutely
essential. Send your suggestions to
library@mallorn.com
and I'll include them if they seem appropriate. They don't
even have to be books -- just anything that you feel is
indispensable.
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III. 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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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.
Chris
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