Garden Writers mailing list usage FAQ located at: http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/GWL-usagefaq.txt - Welcome to the gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org mailing list! - To post to this list, send your email to: gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org General information about the mailing list is at: http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/gardenwriters You can make adjustments to your user account via email by sending a message to: gardenwriters-request@lists.ibiblio.org with the word `help' in the subject or body (don't include the quotes), and you will receive a message with instructions. Finding out what your password is: - If you forget your password, don't worry, you will receive a monthly reminder telling you what all your lists.ibiblio.org mailing list passwords are, and how to unsubscribe or change your options. There is also a button on your options page that will email your current password to you. You may also have your password mailed to you automatically from within the bottom paragraph entitled "gardenwriters Subscribers" on this page: http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/gardenwriters Fill in the form beneath this text: "To change your subscription (set options like digest and delivery modes, get a reminder of your password, or unsubscribe from gardenwriters), enter your subscription email address:" Then click on the button that says: "Edit Options". The GWL homepage is: http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/gardenwriters where you will find list information, change your user configuration options, post to the list and access the message archives. GWL message archives are here: http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/private/gardenwriters GWL has searchable archives at: http://www.hort.net/lists/gardenwriters If you have photos for GWL, send them to gwlphotos@hort.net and they will show up at: http://www.hort.net/lists/gwlphotos/ To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the GWL archives at: http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/private/gardenwriters The Garden Writers list co-owners are: lonrom@hevanet.com Lon Rombough doreenh@ticon.net Doreen Howard lflondon@mindspring.com or london@ibiblio.org Lawrence London Feel free to contact them with any questions or requests you may have. MORE HELPFUL INFORMATION from Doreen Howard, GWL list owner - If you forgot, lost or didn't receive your password, you can go to the website at http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/gardenwriters And there is a place where you can enter your e-mail address (the one you used to subscribe to the GWL) and click on a button, and your password will be e-mailed to you. Once you have that, you can go back and make all the changes you want on your subscription. And there are a LOT of possibilities. If you are still having problems: Please read the following carefully. It will clear up the problems you are having with the GWL transition from Topica.com to Ibiblio.org DIGEST-many of you have previously had your postings sent in Digest form, but the format was not transferred. If you want Digest format, please email me OFF LIST, and I will change you to Digest. doreenh@ticon.net PASSWORD-everyone on the GWL was sent an email from the Mailman List Server at Ibiblio.org with instructions on the new listserv. This also included a password, which is needed to change formats, unsubscribe, etc. Due to the huge volume of email during the changeover, you may have deleted this important information. Or, if your ISP server is small, the posting may have been delayed. Passwords on this system are absolutely necessary. They are part of the software that drives the system. We cannot get around them. I know they are a pain in the neck for some, but we have to deal with it. The reason being is that Ibiblio.org offers us a secure listserv that is not full of advertisements. More important, Ibiblio.org will NOT sell our email addresses to advertisers. And, Ibiblio.org is not blocked by ISP and a cable modem companies such as @home.com and @attbi.com. This was happening when we used Topica.com, because Topica also distributes pornography and worse. So, many responsible ISP's and cable modem companies were blocking any email from Topica.com. A number of our subscribers could not get GWL email. PASSWORD AGAIN-If you have lost your password, never received it or it doesn 't work, I will take care of your changes and requests manually for the next 29 days. Every 30 days, Ibiblio.org will email your password to you with other pertinent data. With the lessening email volume, most of you will get this important email. MAKING PASSWORDS WORK-Some passwords can be tricky. Mine was. I had to keep typing in various combinations until I got the right one. 1 can be either the number ONE or it can be the letter L in lowercase. There are also other combinations that are tricky. So, approach the password as a puzzle to be solved. - Recently there are more letters being posted that are "one-liners" - letters with short answers that really aren't of interest to the list. In the interests of keeping the list as relevant to ALL of us as possible, here are some tips to keep in mind when replying to a letter (thanks to Doug Green). ** The poster's address is on the header that gets into your letter. At the top it should say TO: GardenWriters@lists.ibiblio.org and under that From: XXXXX@ XXXXX.com The xxxx's mark the spot - that's the address of the person sending the note. ** If you want to thank the person who answered - reply directly to that person using the xxxxx address. We'll all assume you are grateful - you don't have to thank each of us in a post to the group. If you want to make a personal statement of some kind - use the xxxx address - not the list. ** If you want to ask a question - do this. That's why we're all here - to ask, answer and find out what's happening with this great group of people. ** Don't fill our mailboxes with "me-too" statements. One person says "there's a problem here" and everybody else says "me too." Somebody says "too many mails" and a host of "me-toos echo from the electronic halls. If we eliminated all the "me-too's" we would not have problems. ** There are two parts to any list. Content and Noise. (these are technical e-list publication terms) Ask yourself before you post - "Is this post going to help somebody?" If the post is helpful to somebody it is content. Just like your magazine and newspaper articles. Newspapers and magazines don't print too many "me-too statements." :-) Thank you ALL for helping keep the ratio of information to noise as high as possible.