[UrbanCropCircle] group communication via Sustainable Ballard /Urban Crop Circles "mailman" program

[Susan Helf]

Dear fellow gardeners,
We are going back to the Sustainable Ballard/Urban Crop Circles "mailman"
program for
electronic communication. It is sometimes referred to as "the listserve."
Many of us were annoyed by the
excessive verbiage that accompaned every new message coming through the
mailman. We temporarily
switched to using an email list, but that list was time-consuming to update
and had accuracy problems.

Michael Wolf diagnosed the problem with the mailman system. It was set on
"digest," the default setting,
which allows hundreds of emails to be bundled and sent together. We shut off
the "digest" setting.
Now you should receive only the latest message.

Directions for using the mailman system:

1. Sending messages: type urbancropcircle at lists.sustainableballard.org into
your browser.
Your message will go to everybody on the UCC list.

 2. Subscribing or unsubscribing. There's no need to notify me or Paula
about adding or
removing names from the list. You can do it anytime yourself. Here's how:

    Go to the link at the bottom of the Urban Crop Circles message page:

http://lists.sustainableballard.org/listinfo.cgi/urbancropcircle-sustainableballard.org
    Click on the link.  When you get to the UCC page, scroll down near the
bottom to the
    subscribe/unsubscribe form.
    Put your email address (and name, if you wish) into the appropriate
place on the form
    click "submit"

Paula put together a list of our email addresses. She'll send that list to
us
as an attachment to a regular email. That will allow us to contact each
other individually.

Jean and I, and possibly Paula, will make a trip to Nicklesville this
Friday, June 11,  to deliver more planting
pots, compost and plant starts. Tonight UCCers donated plant starts,
batteries, blankets, a tarp and a pair
of shoes for the residents of Nicklesville. Thanks to everyone who made a
donation.
The Nickolodeans could use other items as well:

more plant starts and seeds (including flowers;) socks, band-aids, cough
syrup, scrap plywood for boardwalk
paths on their muddy campground; fleece jackets, rain jackets,

Please leave  donations on my porch by 9 a.m this Friday.  My address is 740
N. 82nd St. I live between Linden
and Fremont Avenues North, 1.5 blocks west of Aurora Avenue.  My phone
number is (206( 782-1836.

Thanks much,


Susan Helf
Urban Crop Circles mailman list adminstrator

-- 
"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt."
-Margaret Atwood
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