<div>Dear fellow gardeners,</div>
<div>We are going back to the Sustainable Ballard/Urban Crop Circles "mailman" program for</div>
<div>electronic communication. It is sometimes referred to as "the listserve." Many of us were annoyed by the </div>
<div>excessive verbiage that accompaned every new message coming through the mailman. We temporarily </div>
<div>switched to using an email list, but that list was time-consuming to update and had accuracy problems. </div>
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<div>Michael Wolf diagnosed the problem with the mailman system. It was set on "digest," the default setting, </div>
<div>which allows hundreds of emails to be bundled and sent together. We shut off the "digest" setting. </div>
<div>Now you should receive only the latest message. </div>
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<div>Directions for using the mailman system: </div>
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<div>1. Sending messages: type <a href="mailto:urbancropcircle@lists.sustainableballard.org" target="_blank">urbancropcircle@lists.sustainableballard.org</a> into your browser. </div>
<div>Your message will go to everybody on the UCC list.</div>
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<div>2. Subscribing or unsubscribing. There's no need to notify me or Paula about adding or </div>
<div>removing names from the list. You can do it anytime yourself. Here's how: </div></div>
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<div> Go to the link at the bottom of the Urban Crop Circles message page: </div>
<div> <a href="http://lists.sustainableballard.org/listinfo.cgi/urbancropcircle-sustainableballard.org">http://lists.sustainableballard.org/listinfo.cgi/urbancropcircle-sustainableballard.org</a></div>
<div> Click on the link. When you get to the UCC page, scroll down near the bottom to the </div>
<div> subscribe/unsubscribe form.</div>
<div> Put your email address (and name, if you wish) into the appropriate place on the form</div>
<div> click "submit" </div>
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<div>Paula put together a list of our email addresses. She'll send that list to us </div>
<div>as an attachment to a regular email. That will allow us to contact each other individually. </div>
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<div>Jean and I, and possibly Paula, will make a trip to Nicklesville this Friday, June 11, to deliver more planting</div>
<div>pots, compost and plant starts. Tonight UCCers donated plant starts, batteries, blankets, a tarp and a pair </div>
<div>of shoes for the residents of Nicklesville. Thanks to everyone who made a donation.</div>
<div>The Nickolodeans could use other items as well:</div>
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<div>more plant starts and seeds (including flowers;) socks, band-aids, cough syrup, scrap plywood for boardwalk</div>
<div>paths on their muddy campground; fleece jackets, rain jackets, </div>
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<div>Please leave donations on my porch by 9 a.m this Friday. My address is 740 N. 82nd St. I live between Linden </div>
<div>and Fremont Avenues North, 1.5 blocks west of Aurora Avenue. My phone number is (206( 782-1836.</div>
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<div>Thanks much,</div>
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<div>Susan Helf </div>
<div>Urban Crop Circles mailman list adminstrator<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt." -Margaret Atwood <br></div>