Re: [Callers] List serve etiquette and calling skills

Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:13:11 -0400 From: chris(a)sharedweight.net To: callers(a)sharedweight.net Subject: Re: [Callers] List serve etiquette and calling skills List moderator Chris here: Bree has the right of it. If you look through the archives, you'll see that this is not the first time we've discussed this. If you are on the digest or not, please edit the header and remove irrelevant messages as a kindness to the others on the list. If you are on the digest, it's also a kindness to yourself when you receive your next digest containing your message. JoLaine: I'm going to publicly respond to your comments here because I think that there might be others here who have the same questions, but haven't expressed them. There is another group called "trad-dance-callers" which is on Yahoo groups. If you aren't part of that list, you should check it out and see if it is to your liking. When Seth and I started this list, we wanted to have a list that did not have advertising or a corporation collecting our information. All data for the list is stored on Seth's private server and we do not share that information with anyone. We sacrificed some functionality because of that, but are happy with the way things are. We decided to make the archives publicly available since we feel that the valuable information (the shared wisdom of our participants) not be confined to just the people who subscribe. When I view list posts, I do not see the header info when I view them in Thunderbird. I do see the footer info that the list server adds. Maybe Gmail doesn't filter them the same way or we all need to be a little better about editing our replies. We hope that everyone enjoys the list as it is and we do welcome your comments and feedback. Please feel free to make suggestions on how to improve our services. One of the things that I have been considering for a while is building a resources page for the website. If you would like to see something like that happen, please send me your documents, websites, useful books (title and author) and other resources and I'll see what I can put together. If you're interested in helping to compile the information into a webpage, let me know, too. Feel free to include resources for callers, organizers and musicians. Please send them directly to me at chris(a)sharedweight.net. Use the subject line: "SharedWeight resources". Thank you all for your participation. You are the ones who make this a wonderful forum that is welcoming, informative and interesting. We are so pleased with how this list has turned out. Happy dancing and calling, Chris Weiler Goffstown, NH On 3/28/2011 1:49 PM, Bree Kalb wrote: _______________________________________________ Callers mailing list Callers(a)sharedweight.net http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers