Ohio-Sacred-Harp-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
You will receive a confirmation message--you will need to reply to this message. That's all there is to it. You'll receive a lengthy welcome message, which is quoted below. You can unsubscribe at any time--just follow the instructions in the welcome message.
Welcome to the Ohio Sacred Harp email community!
This email list has been established so that we can more easily promote and organize local and regional Sacred Harp singing events in Ohio and also so that we can keep abreast of events in neighboring states. Subscribers to this mailing list will receive the most up-to-date information on special events, changes of venue, last-minute reminders, and other news regarding Sacred Harp in the Ohio region.
POSTAL MAILINGS - Ohio singers also send out postal mailings about twice yearly. If you would like to receive these print mailings and are not already on the list, send your name and address to the list moderator as instructed below. These are time consuming and expensive, however, so some special events are not always announced by regular mail.
PAPERLESS OPTION - Naturally this email list is meant to relieve some of the burden that postal mailings now carry. Indeed, if you are a regular email user and would like to no longer receive postal mailings, you are encouraged to "go paperless" by writing the list moderator at "Ohio-Sacred-Harp-owner@yahoogroups.com".
REGIONAL SCOPE OF LIST - While we expect that the subscriber base and the message content will pertain primarily to Ohio, we encourage singers from neighboring states to subscribe and announce events accessible to Ohio singers. Announcements of faraway events would probably be more appropriate on the national list, "singings@fasola.org".
IMPORTANT ADDRESSES - If you are new to email lists, you will want to be aware of some important addresses:
Naturally, it is a good idea to save this message so you'll have this information if you need it.
MODERATED LIST - For the time being, this list is set up as a "moderated" list, meaning that I will personally screen messages for content before they appear on the list. The primary purpose in this is to block junk mail and to prevent accidental posts by subscribers, both of which are common though infrequent in mailing lists. As a consequence, there may be a time delay of as much as a day or two before I read and moderate messages. If you send a message and it doesn't appear for more than two days, something may not have worked properly. Either send it again or contact the moderator.
REPLIES - When you reply to an Ohio-Sacred-Harp message, the address that automatically goes in the "To:" box is the message of the author of the message. If you want to reply to the whole list, you will need to type in the list address in the "To:" fiele, i.e., "Ohio-Sacred-Harp@yahoogroups.com".
MESSAGE CONTENT - In posting messages to the list, there are some general courtesies I feel certain everyone will endorse. For example, I hope that we can maintain a reasonably low message traffic, so that those who receive email at work will not be inundated with personal messages. Also, we should anticipate that some subscribers will have never been to a singing, so any message that appears might be their first contact with Sacred Harp. A positive and encouraging tone and accurate and straightforward information is the best way to build our singing community.
YAHOOGROUPS HOSTING - You will want to be aware that this mailing list is hosted by "Onelist," a commercial web host that provides us an email list server and message space. This is free of cost to us, but to pay for the service Onelist attaches advertising to its messages. If at some point this becomes too onerous or unpleasant, we may want to look for other options. For the time being, however, I suspect everyone will tolerate the intrusion.
Thanks - I hope to see everyone at a singing soon!
John Bealle