Conservation Co-op electronic mailing lists

In general, you must be subscribed to a list before you can post to it because majordomo will simply bounce email from non-list-members to that list's moderator, who will then likely delete it. If you use more than one email address, subscribe the address from which you will be posting or else your email will likely be treated as coming from a non-list-member. If you cannot avoid using more than one email address and don't want to receive multiple postings, subscribe the additional addresses to the '-nomail' lists or ask the majordomo owner to create one for that list.

To subscribe to any of the lists, send e-mail to majordomo@conscoop.ottawa.on.ca with a subscription request in the body of the message. DO NOT SEND SUBSCRIPTION REQUESTS TO THE LIST ADDRESSES AS THEY WILL BE CAUGHT BY THE LIST SOFTWARE AND DELETED. The subject line of the email is ignored. An example body text would be:

	subscribe gpc-general "Josephine Q. Public" <jqpublic@email.com>
	end

If your email program insists on breaking or wrapping long lines, you can write instead:

	subscribe gpc-general \
	"Josephine Q. Public" \
	<jqpublic@email.com>
	end

Obviously, you would substitute the list name to which you wish to subscribe and your name and your email address.

To unsubscribe, simply substitute the command 'unsubscribe' for 'subscribe'.

To get help on using majordomo, simply put

	help

in the body of the message.

The lists are:

List		Status		Purpose		Moderator
everyone		closed, members, moderated		Conservation Co-op Announcements (low-volume)		everyone-owner
board		closed, board, auto-moderated		Conservation Co-op Board of Directors		board-owner
ccfood		closed, members, auto-moderated		C C Food Club business		ccfood-owner
ccfood-info		open, members, auto-moderated		C C Food Club information sharing		ccfood-info-owner
community		closed, members, auto-moderated		Conservation Co-op Community Outreach Committee		community-owner
concerns		closed, members, auto-moderated		Conservation Co-op Member Concerns Committee		concerns-owner
environment		closed, members, auto-moderated		Conservation Co-op Environment Committee		environment-owner
finance		closed, members, auto-moderated		Conservation Co-op Finance Committee		finance-owner
gardening		closed, members, auto-moderated		Conservation Co-op Gardening Committee		gardening-owner
general		closed, members, auto-moderated		Conservation Co-op general discussion		general-owner
grendel		closed, members, auto-moderated		Conservation Co-op grendel users		grendel-owner
maintenance		closed, members, auto-moderated		Conservation Co-op Maintenance Committee		maintenance-owner
net		closed, members, auto-moderated		Conservation Co-op Network Committee		net-owner
newsletter		closed, members, auto-moderated		Conservation Co-op Newsletter Committee		newsletter-owner
participation		closed, members, auto-moderated		Conservation Co-op Participation Committee		participation-owner
security		closed, members, auto-moderated		Conservation Co-op Security Committee		security-owner
selection		closed, members, auto-moderated		Conservation Co-op Member Selection Committee		selection-owner
social		closed, members, auto-moderated		Conservation Co-op Social Committee		social-owner

I highly recommend reading this Netiquette document published by the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), which provides a minimum set of guidelines for Network Etiquette, before posting to any mailing list. You may be removed from a list if you violate these.

In general, all postings to these lists that contain (file) attachments will bounce to the moderator and be deleted, especially those containing executable code or proprietary file formats. The reasons for this include the spread of viruses, accessibility, interoperability and bandwidth usage.

If you have questions about these policies, please email The ConsCoOp Majordomo Owner.

A neighbouring site, Flora Community Web has a good set of information for list managers.

Last modified by Richard Guy Briggs on Tue Aug 28 14:18:14 EDT 2001 . Please email me for web page feedback.