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

Tue Jun 8 00:19:56 PDT 2010

I'm also voting for the digest option!
Thanks!
Julianne

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 12:14 AM, jenny heins
<jenny at sustainableballard.org>wrote:

> Me, too.  I need to be on digest or off the list, and I don't want to be
> off the list!!
> It should be easy enough to make un-digest the default, but allow people to
> opt-in to the digest mode.
>
>
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> ◤               Jenny Heins                    ◥
>       President, Sustainable Ballard
>         www.sustainableballard.org
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> On Jun 7, 2010, at 11:40 PM, Susan Helf wrote:
>
> Julia,
> You're welcome.
>
> I understand that the digest setting can be helpful for some people, but
> the group decided
> to eliminate that feature. I don't know if it is possible for an individual
> to get the aggregated
> emails without the whole group getting them as well. I'll find out and get
> back to you.
>
> Susan
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Julia Field <julia at sustainableballard.org
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi Susan,
>>
>> Thanks for all your work on this!
>>
>> I noticed this afternoon that it had been switched from digest, and so I
>> went in and thought I'd successfully put myself back on digest - I am
>> actively working to thin my inbox, and digest is the only way I'll stay on
>> this list (or any list).  Now I seem to be back off of digest - could you
>> please advise if we have a choice, and how to make it?  Thanks!
>>
>> Julia
>>      *
>> *
>>    On Jun 7, 2010, at 10:24 PM, Susan Helf wrote:
>>
>>   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
>>
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