Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Accessing This List Via America On Line

[Fred H Olson WB0YQM (fholson]

On Wed, 8 Mar 95 18:32 CST, 
Ann Caviness  <acavines [at] midas.co.marin.ca.us> wrote:

>I am trying to access the cohousing newsgroup from my terminal at home where
>I have more time to read all the messages, and maybe even respond one of
>these days.  But, I am new to America On Line and cannot access this list so
>far.  AOL has not been helpful so far.  Are any of you accessing from AOL?
>How are you doing it?
>
>Diana Laczkowski
>Ann Caviness
>Community Activities Coordinator/Librarian
>Marin Community Foundation
>17 E. Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Suite 200
>Larkspur, CA  94939
>(415) 461-3386; FAX (415) 461-3386
>acavines [at] midas.co.marin.ca.us
>
>
>
America Online subscribers are the single largest "domain" (address)
represented on Cohousing-L.

To subscribe from America Online is done by sending an Internet Email 
message just like from anywhere else -- details below.  AOL also has
"Gopher" access which allows reading current and old messages.  AOL
will be getting World Wide Web access which will be a third way to 
read the list.


The following is a file ( SUBINTRO.TXT ) which I send out to
folks who write and inquire about the list.  Feel free to pass it around.

Fred


--
Fred H. Olson   fholson [at] uci.com   (612)588-9532  Amateur radio: WB0YQM
1221 Russell Av N, Minneapolis,MN 55411 Sysop of COHOUSING-L listserv;
COHOUSING URL's:  mailto://listserv [at] uci.com (w/ msg: Info Cohousing-L)
gopher://gopher.uci.com/     TC FREENET PUBLIC TEST PHASE: May 1, 1995
URL's: mailto://info [at] freenet.msp.mn.us  http://freenet.msp.mn.us:8000/


Hello,                         

Thank you for your interest in subscribing to the free electronic
discussion about Cohousing. It is called COHOUSING-L and is distributed
as a "mailing list" via the Internet network.

Cohousing is housing designed to foster community and cooperation while
preserving independence.  Private residences are clustered near shared
facilities.  The members design and manage all aspects of their community.

Automated subscription: Send email message to listserv [at] uci.com  with the
following one line command in the message body (no subject):

SUBSCRIBE COHOUSING-L <your real name>

In place of "<your real name>" put your name, please do not put your
email addresse here. In response an informative introduction will be sent.
For example I would send the following line to subscribe:

SUBSCRIBE COHOUSING-L   Fred H. Olson


An alternate way to read or browse the COHOUSING-L messages -- 
current and archived -- as well as other Cohousing information
is via World Wide Web (WWW) or Gopher .  Our WWW site is at:
URL:  http://everest.cs.ucdavis.edu/~stanifor/cohousing.html

One can also access these resources via email if needed.
Send the command "help" in the body of a message to
coho-request [at] helvellyn.cs.ucdavis.edu

If you have a gopher client try  Gopher gopher.uci.com.
Alternatively from the widely accessible University of Minnesota
"Other Gophers" menu here are the links to get to the
Cohousing-L Archives Gopher:

Other Gophers and Information Servers (U of Minn)
 International Organizations
  Institute for Global Communications
   Progressive Gophers
    Economic Democracy Information Network
     Housing, Hunger & Welfare
      Cohousing Archives

   If you want to access the Cohousing-L Archives Gopher regularly,
you will want to set a "Gopher Bookmark" in your Gopher client which
greatly facilitates later access.  Check your Gopher client's help
for details.

   Note that at this time the Cohousing-L Gopher does not include a 
way to post messages.  To post to the list you will need to 
subscribe as above.  If you prefer to read messages via gopher 
you will probably wish to send the command:
    SET COHOUSING-L MAIL POSTPONE    to  LISTSERV [at] UCI.COM
so the messages are not sent by email.  See the welcome 
message that is sent when you subscribe for more information.

The volume of messages distributed over Cohousing-L is a problem for some
people.  "Digest mode" is available to deal with this somewhat but
sending all messages for a day as one big message.  The command
to set this up after you've subscribed is:
SET COHOUSING-L MAIL DIGEST

COHOUSING-L messages are also available on IGC/Peacenet in
the public conference list.cohousing