From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <llondon@bellsouth.net>
To: permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu
Subject: USAGE information for this forum (save for reference)
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 03:01:40 -0800
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Discussion Forum USAGE (save for future reference)
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Natural Agriculture Heirarchy of Forums at MetaLab
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Lawrence London
llondon@bellsouth.net
london@metalab.unc.edu http://metalab.unc.edu/london
List Administrator
Email me if you have questions, requests or suggestions
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Usage Information
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range of input in case you forget access details.
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Subscribers will be able to post, crosspost and read using any
method of access: the Web, email or news; non-subscribers will be able
to read but not post.
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whether they are posted via news, the Website or email.
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Any spam posted will result in the offending party being locked out
of the forum and all their messages will be purged from the archive.
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ACCESS
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Access by email:
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send inquiries to: put name of mailing list here@franklin.oit.unc.edu
to post to the list send email to:
put name of mailing list here@franklin.oit.unc.edu
Access on the Web:
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go to this URL: http://franklin.oit.unc.edu
go to "Official SunSITE Contributor Lists"
then go to:
"Topics Related to Natural Agriculture"
then go to the forum of your choice
Here you can subscribe/unsubscribe, change your user options (i.e. tell
the list not to send you any email,
that you prefer to access the forum via the Web or as a newsgroup),
read, post, search
Access by newsgroup:
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Method 1 using your news reader:
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your list
of news servers in your news reader, or make it your default server:
franklin.oit.unc.edu
[in Netscape this is easy - just click on "file", then "open news host",
then type in franklin.oit.unc.edu in the dialog box].
In Free Agent you can only have one news server (host) but you can,
of course, run multiple copies of Free Agent [just install
it into separate folders, each with a different name and different
desktop icon]. Connect with the news server and download the list of
newsgroups
available and subscribe to the ones that interest you.
Method 2 using your Web browser [+ news reader]:
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go to this URL: news://franklin.oit.unc.edu
and download the list of newsgroups available and subscribe to the ones
that interest you
or go to this URL: news://franklin.oit.unc.edu/put name of forum (= newsgroup, = mailing
list) here
to get to individual forums directly for reading and/or posting (if
you're subscribed)
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URLs for access via the Web and news
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