Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Ettiquette and Digests

[Ann Zabaldo (zabaldo]

I take this moment to acknowledge you, Fred, for all your behind the scenes
work for this listserv.  I imagine that it's hard to decide when to step in
and when to let the exchange unfold.  You are clearly a great list manager
because 99% of the time your presence is unnoticed.  We all use the
listserv.  It's ready and waiting 24hrs a day.  You fix it when it
hiccoughs.  We forget we pay no money for its upkeep or for your time to
manage it.

Thank you for your contribution to the listserv and to cohousing.  It's an
invaluable service.

Ann Zabaldo

Takoma Village Cohousing
Washington, DC. -- America's
Hometown!
zabaldo [at] earthlink.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred H Olson" <fholson [at] cohousing.org>
To: "-cohousing-L mailing list" <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 2:48 PM
Subject: [C-L]_Ettiquette and Digests


> When Cohousing-L was at the old listserv there was a very long welcome
> message.  It may have had something about ettiquette - I dont recall or
> have it handy.  Over our nearly 10 years we have been
> a friendly, congenial discussion without the acrimony that some
> online discussions suffer from.  I attribute this mostly to the topic
> and the types of people attracted to it.
>
> Maybe something like the following should be added to the info page:
>
>   Please follow generally accepted net etiquette, see:
>   http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html
>
> Back when the list was small we did encourage people to introduce
> themselves but since we are around 500 people that is no longer
> as realistic.  But people who wish to introduce themselves are welcome
> todo so, particularly if it sets the context for their comments -
> presumably about cohousing.
>
> There are a number of specific recommendations that have been made at one
> time or another - dont post HTML or other attachments, identify ourself
> and your community, compose good subject lines etc.  These are not posted
> in one place at the moment.  Another task...  Volunteers?
>
> Regarding digests.  The list is currently configured to generate a digest
> when 30 Kbytes of messages have been received.  Thus very active day's can
> generate multiple digests.  This number could be increased - I'm open to
> comment - off list.  If the 30K threshold is not reached during the day
> and there are messages, one digest is sent .
>
> Fred, cohousing-L list manager
>
>
>
>
>
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