Cohousing-L Welcome message
From: Fred H. Olson (fholsonmaroon.tc.umn.edu)
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 13:52:20 -0600
Below is a readable copy of the Welcome message.  Apparently an 
errant mouse click resulted in it being sent in encoded format 
in my message while the list was down  - sorry.

Fred 

--
Fred H. Olson  List manager of Cohousing-L
owner-cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org

Welcome to the Internet 'mailing list' electronic discussion COHOUSING-L
from Fred H. Olson,  the list manager of COHOUSING-L.        7/28/96
Cohousing-L and the Cohousing WWW pages are maintained for the national
Cohousing Network which is being formed as of March 1996.  Other resources
which already exist that will come under the Cohousing Network umbrella
include the magazine CoHousing (see below) and the Cohousing Conferences
(regional conferences in fall '96 next national conferences in fall '97)

    *********  HOW TO USE COHOUSING-L MAILING LIST    *********
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#  PLEASE EVERYONE, save this message in your folder of MAILING LIST   #
#  WELCOME MESSAGES. It contains useful information that you will      #
#  need eventually.  If you don't have a folder of welcome messages    #
#  or comparable, please start one.  In particular, make sure you      #
#  have recorded these addresses somewhere and use as indicated:       #
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#  WWW URL:  http://www.cohousing.org/                                 #
#  Post ABOUT COHOUSING ONLY       to: cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org       #
#  Send list related COMMANDS      to: listproc [at] cohousing.org          #
#  Send for help from list manager to: owner-cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org #
#  <Note that "cohousing.org"  'is' really mtn.org (8/96) and shows    #
#  up in headers etc.  Please use cohousing.org in case this changes.> #
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US mail and voice phone contacts can be found at end of this file.

Cohousing-L is primarily a "working" discussion among people heavily
involved in developing cohousing. As such introductory messages and
messages about the joys of cohousing are infrequent -- THO they are very
welcome.  Cohousing is really great despite the travails discussed we
discuss!! Our WWW site includes resources for newcomers to the idea of
cohousing. It includes complete archives of Cohousing-L since it was
started in Oct. 1992. The messages are archived in chronological order
automatically (and therefore always current).  The messages are also
archived in categories on the WWW . The WWW has a search capability.  It
is very desirable to have BROWSED our WWW site and archives BEFORE
subscribing to COHOUSING-L.

************ Net Etiquette and message composition *******************
Please observe Net etiquette.
If you have something rude to say, that you can not resist saying,
say it to the individual, not the whole list unless you feel the whole
list (500+ people) desires or deserves your rudeness!  Be prepared to
be criticized (directly but in a civil manner) when you are rude.

Consider carefully before posting advertisements.  Cohousing related
ads are ok.  Other ads (spams) ARE NOT WELCOME and will result in a
formal complaint from the list manager to you and TO YOUR ACCESS
PROVIDER.  I urge subscribers to boycott businesses that send spams to
mailing lists.  Keep cohousing ads of moderate length and give an email
address for more information. If in doubt about appropriateness of a
posting, consult the list manager.

Messages intended for individuals that are not of general interest
should be sent directly to the individual NOT over the list.  If you
can't figure out their address, ask your local support person how to
examine message headers.  Posters are encouraged to include their email
address in their signature block at the end of postings.  Brief to
moderate length messages about individual situations requesting response
from readers are welcome tho followup should generally be by direct
email.  Terse and flippant responses are generally inappropriate over
the list.  These add little and may detract from the discussion; our
volume of messages is high with just substantive messages.

Check the subject line of your message carefully to ensure its
appropriateness.  This particularly applies to DIGEST MODE
subscribers. It is read more than any other part of your message
and deserves much more consideration.  For replies the subject line
serves two purposes 1) to identify a "thread" (sequence of related
messages) and 2) to identify the content of the message.
Keep the left portion of the message unchanged if the reply bears
some relationship to previous messages.  Consider changing the right
portion to reflect the current message.  If a reply to a message
very substantially changes the subject, consider changing the subject
line to reflect new content.

If you plan to REPUBLISH information from Cohousing-L, please get and
read the file CL-REPUB.TXT from the Cohousing-L area of the WWW site.

Cohousing-L is a "high quality list" ; let's keep it that way.

******************* PROBLEMS WITH THE LISTSERVER **********************

"Not Subscribed" and "Message rejected" anomalies.
Messages to be distributed and most commands are accepted only from a
subscribed address. ( This is to prevent distribution of error messages
that sometimes get returned to the list address.) However sometimes the
listserver erroneously thinks a command is from a variation of a subscribed
address and rejects it.  Sometimes users wish to post from an address other
than their subscribed address.  Either of these are solved by the creation
of an "alias" address by the list manager. If you experience one of these,
contact the list manager.

When a subscriber's MAIL BOUNCES consistently for a few days the list
manager (or the listserver itself) will drop that subscriber without
notice (since their email is bouncing).  Please take care not to exceed
your disk quota which will start bouncing mail. If you stop getting
cohousing messages: check recent messages for a notice of a down period
for the list. If there is none, check for problems with your account.
If there has been a problem get it fixed and resubscribe.  Feel free to
consult the list manager.

************************* COMMAND SUMMARY *******************************

DON'T SEND COMMANDS AND MESSAGES THAT WOULD BE BETTER SENT DIRECTLY
TO ANOTHER SUBSCRIBER TO THE ENTIRE LIST !!!
Please try to avoid sending commands to the wrong address.
Successful commands are acknowledged with a return message.  Lack of
an acknowledgement may mean you sent the command to the wrong address.

Send list commands as first line of body of message (subject is ignored)
to listproc [at] cohousing.org   Commonly used commands for Cohousing-L are:

SUBSCRIBE COHOUSING-L <your real name>
UNSUBSCRIBE COHOUSING-L   Note that no name or argument is allowed!

Mail Mode commands.
Each subscription is in one of four MAIL modes ( DIGEST, POSTPONE, NOACK
or ACK) at any time. To undo one, use another. ( ACK is the default).

SET COHOUSING-L   With no parameter, current mode/status will be sent.
This is useful just to check if the address the listserver has for you
"works".  If everything is ok; you get simply a message informing you what
the current settings of your subscription are.
However if there is a problem, you will get a message that starts:
<address from your msg>: You are not subscribed to cohousing-L@...
Only subscribers to COHOUSING-L can post or issue commands to the list.

SET COHOUSING-L MAIL DIGEST  In DIGEST mode postings from the list are
sent bundled as one message per day. This greatly reduces the number
of messages ( from about 300 to about 30 per month). When replying
to a message in a 'digest', PLEASE BE SURE to manually enter the
appropriate Subject/Thread -- otherwise your reply will have the subject:
"RE: COHOUSING-L digest nnn"     which isn't very helpful.

SET COHOUSING-L MAIL ACK  The 'normal mode'. Messages you send to the
                                             list WILL be sent to you.

SET COHOUSING-L MAIL NOACK Messages you send to the list WONT be sent
to you.

SET COHOUSING-L MAIL POSTPONE  No messages will be sent.
   If you are going to be gone for a period of time and don't
   want to have your mailbox filling up with list messages, this feature
   will temporarily suspend mailings to you *until you change MAIL mode
   again with for example SET COHOUSING-L MAIL ACK *
INFO COHOUSING-L    Gets welcome message
REVIEW COHOUSING-L  Gets list of subscribers
HELP      get information about listserver commands

*********************** CoHousing magazine/journal*********************

CoHousing is published quarterly by The CoHousing Network, P.O.Box 2584,
Berkeley, CA 94702; 510-526-6124.  $25.00 per year; sample issues $5.00.
Bulk rates available for groups and resale; please inquire.
The journal provides news and information about the development process
as well as life in CoHousing communities.  Four-page regional inserts
report on the activities of groups around the United States and Canada.
Comments/questions/Letters to the Editor may be forwarded to Don
Lindemann (cohomag [at] aol.com).

************* US mail address and voice phone: **************************
If you do not have Internet access, the following conventional contacts
will eventually reach the Internet cohousing-L folks:
US Mail to:  Cohousing-L c/o Twin Cities Cohousing Network, P.O. Box 7304,
Minneapolis, MN 55407   or   by voice phone:
(612) 930-7580 (24 hour voice mail which hopefully will have a current
phone contact for us - else leave a paper mail address for the "cohousing
dash L list manager" (sorry, we do not return long distance phone calls))
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