[Mb-civic] Mb-Civic List FAQ

[Little Birdie]

Hi all,

Here is the FAQ for the Mb-Civic List. Please keep it somewhere that you can 
refer to it. Email me if you have any questions.

Nina


Frequently Asked Questions about the Mb-Civic Lists

The Mb-Civic list is an email mailing list for the purpose of discussing 
politics, current events, and related issues, and for posting articles of 
interest on these topics. Members send articles and comments in an email, 
which is then sent out to the entire membership.

Subscribing

To subscribe to the Mb-Civic list online go to:

http://www.islandlists.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mb-civic

and follow the on screen instructions for subscribing. Within a few moments 
of subscribing you should receive a confirmation email, with a link to 
follow to confirm your subscription. You must confirm your subscription 
within three days. Shortly after confirming your subscription you should 
receive a Welcoming email. If you subscribe online and do not receive the 
confirmation email, or the Welcoming email, please let us know in an email 
to: mb-civic-owner at islandlists.com  or directly to the moderator (see 
below).
Unsubscribing

To unsubscribe from Mb-Civic go to:

http://www.islandlists.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mb-civic

Enter your email address under the section “Mb-Civic Subscribers” to go to 
the first of your settings page. To unsubscribe press the button in that 
section. You will be sent a confirmation email, with instructions as to how 
to confirm your unsubscription. You must confirm your desire to unsubscribe 
within three days.

Changing Account Settings

There are many settings on your subscription that you can change, such as 
your password, whether you get the list in Regular Format (each individual 
post comes as a separate email) or Digest Format (you receive the posts 
bundled into one or two emails a day), or to temporarily stop delivery of 
the list when you wish to stay subscribed, but want no mail to come from the 
list for a period of time, such as when you go on vacation. To change any of 
these setting go to:

http://www.islandlists.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mb-civic

Enter your email address under the section “Mb-Civic Subscribers” to go to 
the first of your settings page. Enter your password in the box indicated 
and go to your second settings page. Here you will find sections, with 
explanations, to change many of your account settings.

Forgot your password?

Go to: http://www.islandlists.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mb-civic  Enter 
your email address under the section “Mb-Civic Subscribers” to go to the 
first of your settings page. There you will find a button to click to have a 
password reminder sent to you.

Bounces

Each account is allowed 5 bounces (emails sent out from the list that are 
bounced back to our server as undeliverable) before your account becomes 
temporarily disabled, meaning no emails get sent out until the account is 
reactivated. If you have a limit on your email account it can be wise to put 
your account on hold when you go on vacation, or will be away from your 
computer, for any length of time, in order to avoid bounces. This can be 
done through the account settings page online, as described above, where you 
can also reactivate your account when you wish emails to start coming 
again.. If you believe your account has become inactivated due to excessive 
bounces, please contact the moderator to reactivate it.

Posting to the list

To post to the Mb-Civic List send your email to mb-civic at islandlists.com It 
will be sent out to all of the subscribers of the list.

Please note the following:

You can only post from the email address you are subscribed at.

The email address mb-civic at islandlists.com must be visible in the “To” or 
the “CC” fields of your email. Emails where the list address is a Blind 
Carbon Copy, or as part of a larger mailing list which does not show the 
addresses, get stopped by the filters and must be OK’ed by the moderator 
before they go out to the list. Please make sure the list address is 
visible.

Posts larger than 100K in size must be checked and authorized by the 
moderator.

All posts to the list must be sent in plain text, and not in html.  The 
software we use to archive the posts does not accept any html, nor do some 
email programs, therefore we ask that all post be in plain text only.

Attachments

Attachments are allowed on the Mb-Civic List. However, html attachments are 
not archived in the list archives, and cannot be read by some of our 
subscribers, so please send all text attachments as plain text. Other types 
of attachments (jpg, etc.) are accepted.
List Archives

Like many mailing lists, the Mb-Civic list archives its posts online. You 
can view the archived posts to the list (sorted by Thread, Author, Subject, 
or Date) by going to:

http://www.islandlists.com/pipermail/mb-civic/

Only the posts from July 2004 forward are available. All posts to the list 
prior to July 2004 were lost in a server crash. Please Note: As all the 
posts to the list are archived online it is unwise to include in a post your 
phone number, address, or any other personal information that you wouldn't 
want published online.

Editors

Certain list members have been designated, by the list owner, as editors, 
and assigned to send articles of interest from specific publications that 
they read regularly. List members are also free to send other articles from 
these same publications if they feel an article of interest has been 
overlooked by the editor. If there is a publication that you feel is not 
regularly represented on the list, and you would like to be the editor of 
that publication for the list send an email to the moderator (see below) who 
will check with the list owner and get back to you.
Behavior

It is to be expected that in discussions people will not always agree with 
each other. Discussion of differing opinions is encouraged on the list, and 
one is always free to state one’s position, and go into reasons and 
explanations for holding that opinion. However, it is expected that people 
will express their opinions in a way that does not insult the person with 
whom they are disagreeing. No personal insults will be tolerated on the 
list. If a member’s conduct does not live up to these standards in the 
opinion of the list owner or moderator, they will be given an official 
warning. If any member accumulates a third warning they will be unsubscribed 
from the list.

Members are encouraged to acknowledge that their posts are their opinions 
only, and to not state their opinion as fact.

When a thread gets off topic or becomes a personal discussion, and is 
potentially not of interest to the entire list, it is expected that the 
parties will take their discussion to private email and not continue it on 
the list.

Questions & Assistance

The list  moderator is Nina Machlin Dayton. Any questions on subjects 
pertaining to the list or this FAQ can be addressed to her at 
dayton3 at rcn.com or at mb-hair-owner at islandlists.com