Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Free Ads for Free Stuff

[Rob Sandelin (floriferous]

At Sharingwood we use email headers to help us sort through email. One such
header is called, Shirleys list, which is our way to let people know stuff
we have to give away. Although the scale of cohousing-l is larger than my
community, using this list in such a way might work, since in reality most
such things would go to the community of origin first and then to the
greater list, so it may not add much traffic to this list.  The header could
be something simple like:  Free stuff:  Framed portraits of Craig Ragland
inside the message would be details, if you were not interested you could
just delete the message based on the header.  

If this were tried out for say, three months, we could then evaluate if it
creates too much email, or is not useful. In my own world, I find email to
be a much more effective mechanism for changing information than a website.
I personally rarely look at the Cohousing website but read at least half the
emails on this list.

Rob Sandelin
Sharingwood, Snohomish County, WA