The North American Fruit Explorers (NAFEX) is a network of individuals throughout the United States and Canada devoted to the discovery, cultivation and appreciation of superior varieties of fruits and nuts. The group's web site can be viewed at http://www.nafex.org/ - Welcome to the nafex@lists.ibiblio.org mailing list! - This is the NAFEX Mailing List Usage FAQ. - It is located at: http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/NAFEX-List-usagefaq.txt and: http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/nafex With supplementary information here: http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/NAFEX-List-usagefaq2.txt and: http://www.imsa.edu/~ckolar/mailman/ - CHANGES to your personal options are made at: http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/options/nafex/XXXX@XXXX where XXXX@XXXX is YOUR email address. This is the easiest way to make changes. GENERAL INFORMATION about the mailing list is at: http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/nafex A list of EMAIL BASED COMMANDS can be obtained by sending the word "help" (without the quotes) as the sole message body to The ARCHIVE can be accessed at: http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/nafex See below for instructions on accessing the old Yahoo site archive. The NAFEX list co-owners are: Greg Miller and Lawrence London or Feel free to contact them with any questions or requests you may have. Administrative questions can also be made to Ibiblio sends a monthly reminder of your password and common commands. **POSTING MESSAGES** Post in plain text (ASCII) only. DO NOT POST WITH HTML!! Ibiblio currently can handle only text and MIME. To post to this list, send your email to: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org DO NOT SEND ADMINISTRATIVE REQUESTS (e.g., unsubscribe, digest mode) TO THIS ADDRESS! See later instructions for administrative requests. Please observe the following guidelines. 1. Please sign your posts. Include location and climate information if relevant. 2. If you want to ask (or answer) a question, by all means do it! That is the purpose of this list. Make posts and replies to the list, not privately, as many others may have similar questions. 3. Post attachments with extreme care. [To put it less subtlely, DON'T POST ANY ATTACHMENTS EXCEPT TO THE SPECIAL UPLOAD/DOWNLOAD AREA!] If unavoidable attach ONLY plain text files (.txt), NOT word processor (.doc), NOT Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) NOR graphics files of ANY type. Non-text files may be uploaded and downloaded in the method described later. 4. Include only pertinent comments/questions when replying to a post--NOT THE ENTIRE MESSAGE. 5. Try to avoid posting messages that are "one-liners" - ones with short answers that really aren't of interest to the list. It is a good idea to keep the list as relevant to as many subscribers as possible. Limit "me too" replies to the list; many people see them as clutter that lowers the "signal-to-noise" ratio. 6. If you want to thank the person who answered - reply DIRECTLY to that person using their own email address, not the list 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, please respond "off-line" to minimize "noise." 7. If you have an administrative question about list operation, contact the listowners at Remember that there ARE quiet periods from time to time. **ATTACHMENTS** Be aware that this list forwards ALL ATTACHMENTS. Besides the annoying (LONG) attachments, this *can* include malicious attachments like viruses, worms, and their ilk. Since many email programs can be configured to AUTOMATICALLY open attachments, you may wish to disable this option. Manually opening attachments takes your cooperation but achieves the same effect. Similar considerations can apply to MIME and HTML formatting. (The default on this list is NO MIME.) Check for security updates to your email program, and consider running a good anti-virus program with a CURRENT library of viral signatures. Most programs provide free updates of current viral data files. Even nice people get viruses, which hijack the owners email to forward themselves to the users' email address books. Receiving email puts you at risk for receiving viruses. Educate yourself and take appropriate steps to protect yourself. **RECEIVING OPTIONS** Default is to send individual messages. To change the way in which you recieve email, go to http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/options/nafex/XXXX@XXXX where XXXX@XXXX is YOUR email address. You can change all of your options their including VACATION HOLD (no mail, you will have to access the archive for mail you missed), DIGEST MODE, and other options. For direct email commands (more difficult) see below. **UPLOADING/DOWNLOADING SPECIAL FILES** A location will be made available soon where list members may upload files of any type via ftp (file transfer protocol) and by email with file attachments. This collection may be accessed for viewing or download in a new website created for the purpose. **PASSWORDS** 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 with some of the free services like Topica.com. IF YOU FORGET YOUR PASSWORD, go to http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/options/nafex/XXXX@XXXX where XXXX@XXXX is the email address you use for receiving this list. You can have a password emailed to that address. **ARCHIVE** The IBIBLIO NAFEX MESSAGE ARCHIVE is accessed via the web page http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/nafex You can view the archive by thread, author, date. You can also view and download the raw archive in monthly batches. They are stored in plain text format with all messages concatenated. Your browser should be able to view these files, There are many text editors or html editors capable of viewing these files as well. You can also download the archive in .txt format for later viewing on your computer. This file is compressed with g-zip (.gz format) and will require an appropriate decompression utility. The archive from the old YAHOO site (before May 1, 2002) can be accessed at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nafex/messages. You have be a Yahoo member to view them. **EMAIL COMMANDS** You can make adjustments to your user account via email by sending a message to: with the word `help' in the subject or body (don't include the quotes), and you will receive a message with instructions. ALL COMMANDS ARE SENT to with different text in the body of the message. Your password is ALWAYS required as part of the command. If you have forgotten your password you can get that by email only. Substitute the phrase with YOUR password. (Be forewarned that if your email program adds a signture to message, the server will try to execute those lines as though they are commands UNLESS you finish each command with the word "end".) Sample message bodies: CHANGE TO DIGEST MODE Set Digest On end CHANGE TO No Mail MODE Set NoMail end UNSUBSCRIBE Unsubscribe end SUBSCRIBE Subscribe nafex end GET YOUR PASSWORD Password end