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About Cohousing-L

Cohousing is housing designed to foster community and cooperation while preserving independence. About 30 private residences are clustered near shared facilities. The members design and manage all aspects of their community. Cohousing-L is a discussion about all aspects of cohousing - development and joys and challenges of living in cohousing. Cohousing-L is independent of but cooperates with National Cohousing Alliance. Cohousing-L has about 1100 active subscribers (June 2026) and distributed an average of about 50 messages per month in 2026. It is conducted by email - a "mailing list" or "listserv". See About mailing lists Cohousing-L References page: List history, list FAQs and links to some files and web pages mentioned in the discussion. To see the collection of the over 52,000 postings (June 2026) since the list started in 1993 visit, Cohousing-L Messages (archives). The Index Pages are by default chronological with most recent on top. Unfortunately getting to an Index Page of a given time in the last 26 years is awkward, the Date Index helps. Searching the archives. Each index page of the archives has a form at the top to enter a search string. There is a link to Search Tips at the bottom of every search results page. More about Cohousing: o National Cohousing Alliance website (cohousingalliance.org) Note: formerly The Cohousing Association of the United States (Coho/US) o Stories about life in cohousing from 2002 and before Cohousing-L postings (at archive.org) o Fred's Cohousing Resource page

Using Cohousing-L

To post a message to all the list members, send email to cohousing-L at cohousing.org Note that Cohousing-L is a public list and the archives are public and searchable; consider this when composing posts. Sometimes Cohousing-L discussions result in a lot of email (to see how much, browse the archives - link above). Some people find this overwhelming and prefer digest mode -- one message per day that sends all of the day's messages in one email. But digest mode complicates replying to messages. Choose your preference when you subscribe below. Over half of subscribers are in digest mode. To subscribe to the Cohousing-L discussion, change your existing subscription, or get your password (needed to make changes) emailed to you, see the sections below.

Subscribing to Cohousing-L

Note that the Coho/US sends email separately from Cohousing-L Use totally separate subscription page: Coho/US eNewsletter Subscribe to Cohousing-L by filling out the following form. To prevent others from subscribing you without your permission, you will be sent an e-mail message asking you to verify your subscription. This is a hidden list, which means that the list of members is available only to the list administrator. Note Gmail's "new" user interface (2013) can be the source of problems subscribing, see: FAQ17 Your email address:   Real name/Geo-code/Comm-code*: * This information will not be public but can help us assess list coverage and with maintenance. Geo-code: two character country code       plus If USA or Canada:/ State or Province code/Zip Code plus Comm-code: Community (or org.) initials or abbreviation., Examples: Liz Stevenson /US/CA/95814/SPC      (Liz at Southside Park, Sacramento, California) Hans Tilstra /AU/Melbourne               (Hans with the Melbourne Cohousing Network in Australia) If your community is not listed in Coho/US Community List , please take steps to add it (see site). How would you like to receive list mail? Select Mail mode: Individual mode sends messages one at a time -- 15 in one day is not unusual on a hot topic. Digest mode groups individual messages into one (or a few) large digest messages per day. Replying to digests properly is more complicated. See Digest replies Please consider 'auto folders' to keep Cohousing-L individual messages in a separate folder and out of your inbox, especially in Gmail, Outlook. See Auto folders Digest Individual        You must pick one or the other

Unsubscribing, password reminder, options

To unsubscribe from Cohousing-L, get a password reminder, or change your subscription options, enter your subscription e-mail address: If the address you enter above is not subscribed to cohousing-L, you will not get reminders or notices tho the following "Options" page will say it has sent a reminder! Are you subscribed at a different address? If you have difficulty after trying to use forms, send email to list managers, Fred H. Olson and Neil Planchon of the management team at: cohousing-l-owner at cohousing.org (Note: please no longer send cohousing-L related requests direct to Fred.) (The subscribers list is only available to the list administrator.) Enter your admin address and password to visit the subscribers list: Admin address:   Password: