Cohousing-L Mailing List: NEW LOW VOLUME EMAIL way to follow Cohousing-L

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

Yesterday and so far today there have only been 5 messages distributed by
Cohousing-L but experience indicates this lull will be short lived. I
decided to take this lull as an opportunity finally announce a new related
mailing list that sends only ONE MESSAGE PER WEEK.

The C-L-sum [at] cohousing.org mailing list sends a weekly summary of
the messages distributed by cohousing-L in the past week.
Each thread - unique subject line - is listed once with the names of
the poster and people who reply.  To read messages thenselves one would
go to the Messages web page ( 'the archives' ).

See http://l.cohousing.org/c-l-sum.htm
Examplse of summary messages in the archives of the C-L-sum list via that
address.


The C-L-sum list still a bit unpolished , subscribing to it, and setting
up a C-L-sub plus a cohousing-L no mail mode sub so one can post is a bit
awkward. So far I've been able to produce the summaries more or less
on time (its a semi automated process) but it is still a concern.

The most common reason that people unsubscribe from cohousing-L is that
they can't deal with all the email.  Even Digest mode (most subscribers
now use Digest mode) generate a lot of email.  C-L-sum offers a way to get
very little email but that email reminds one to not forget about the
discussion completely.

Comments welcome - send directly to me prefereably.

Fred, listserv manager

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