Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@gilanet.com>]

Fair questions and I'll reply on list for others' information.

There are no automatic spam filters that work right. Subscriptions here have 
to go through approval so don't worry about spam. If anything slips through 
somehow, the address will be banned. No spam ever got through on the Mailman 
or Yahoo lists I've run. We don't allow attachments on this list because of 
viruses etc.  Far as I know archives on Ibiblio lists aren't searchable but 
can be accessed by Thread, Subject, Author, or Date. For specific 
information, just ask it on the list. We're all here to learn.

There won't be any mailing interruptions betwen Ilibiblo and Yahoo here 
because we're not depending on Yahoo to redirect to Living On The Land. We're 
not depending on Yahoo at all for this.

Our Yahoo lists Soilmakers and SoilmakersGrowing are still there, along with 
their archives, for those subscribed to those lists, though no new messages 
will be sent to those lists.

You're already on digest.

And yes, this is a good list, a great list - because of the people 
contributing on it.

We've only just begun. Let's go for it!


paul, tradingpost@riseup.net
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The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not 
television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. Only 
those who know the most about it can appreciate how little we know about it.
   - Aldo Leopold in  Round River, 1933
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On 3/24/2006 at 10:16 AM Pego Rice wrote:

>Hello Paul
>
>I would also appreciate being switched to digest.  I
>have become rather comfortable with yahoo and with
>maintaining my "do not SPAM" status with them and with
>managing my lists and digests at one site.  I am list
>posting this since it is already plain that others are
>wondering something as well and it may as well be
>answered in one post.
>
>
>Whatever my personal feeling about yahoo are, the are
>sufficient to encourage me to try this new thing of
>yours, if you can help me to understand it enough to
>know that my concerns here will be addressed.
>
>What SPAM protocols does this list-server possess?
>
>Does it allow attachments that may contain viruses or
>does it allow you (as list owner) to block them the
>way yahoo does?
>
>Does it allow you to search the archives by a keyword
>or topic?  I can see that it archives by thread
>instead of by date of post, but I have generally found
>that to be both awkward and not very helpful in
>finding specific information.
>
>I am sure that other questions have occurred to other
>people and will eventually occur to me, so I ask you
>to air out some of these questions and answers on list
>so as to get them all addressed in a direct and timely
>manner and firmly placed on the archived threads for
>future reference.
>
>I had been a member of another list serve that tried
>this same switch to, surprisingly, this save server,
>and although that owner had discussed the move in
>great detail prior to the switch, she had not known
>this info and the move was, ultimately, unsuccessful.
>For one thing there had at that time appeared to be a
>conflict between Ilibiblo and Yahoo that caused some
>mailing interruptions, for those of us who had Yahoo,
>Netscape and AOL accounts.
>
>I hope we can keep this good list together better that
>that one did.  It had made the mistake of closing down
>it's yahoo list and then had to make yet another list,
>there, to go on to, instead of returning to it's
>original list.
>
>Yours, Pego Rice
>