Adat Shalom members are invited to subscribe to the ListServ in order to receive e-mail messages at the PC and e-mail address of your choice. You may subscribe to the ListServ at this link (subscribe). Since only members may be on the list, your registration will be processed as soon as your membership has been verified by the list owner.
Archives: Listserve members can view archives of the list (going back to its origins), by going to the List Archives. The first link is to a fairly sophisticated search functionality--if you need help with that, Shamash provides help for using the search functionality--just click any of the underlined words for further help. If you know when something was posted, you can just click on the month listings instead and then have the choice of having the postings sorted by Author, Date, or Topic.
By the way, if you miss a few days or weeks, the archive pages on the web site are a useful way to catch up. Easy to scan through weeks of subject lines at a time and click on the ones you want to read.
Once you are registered, you can manage your subscription by using this
link (manage). Here you can change your subscription options to receive all messages
(Regular), or elect one of several Digest or Index options. [If you click "Subscription Type", you can see a short explanation of
all available options.] You can also stop messages when you go on vacation by checking "Mail delivery disabled
temporarily." In either case, click "Update Options" for your choice to take effect.
With the index version of the list, you get only a sort of table of
contents in your email message, and you click on the subject lines that
interest you to see only those messages on the web site. This means the
messages you receive are very short and don't contain the text from lots
of messages you may not want to read.
Subscribers may also take advantage of the web browser interface to (1) read messages if you are not at your own PC or (2) if you elect not to receive any e-mails. To use the web interface, you do need to create a login with the same e-mail address used for your subscription. From the Shamash ListServ "Home Page," you can read the list archives, retrieve attachments, search the archives, post a message from your e-mail address, or manage your subscription through a link.
How we use this list is up to the congregation as it evolves. Among other things, this list is appropriate for congregational announcements, discussions of congregational issues (organizational, programatic, and religious), etc.
While we have no "content" guidelines, we have published from time to time some general guidelines that mainly cover "netiquette"--accepted practices for internet lists--rather than addressing the content of messages.
1. Include only *relevant* portions of the message to which you are responding, not the whole message (see below if you have technical problems).
2. Consider posting an "e-mail me for further info" message or a web address (URL), rather than posting a long article (which is harder for digest subscribers to scroll past).
3. Type your name at the end of every message you post because it can be hard to decode the FROM line.
4. Consider inviting responses to be sent directly to you and then later summarizing them for the list.
5. Do not send virus alerts, petitions, or other difficult-to-verify, "forward to everyone you know"-type messages. Most of them are hoaxes, inaccurate, or at least provide no end date or contact info for verification. If you're uncertain, send it to the list manager for checking.
6. Do not send attachments with list messages. They cause problems for some subscribers.
Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation
7727 Persimmon Tree Lane
Bethesda, MD 20817
E-mail info@adatshalom.net
Phone: 301-767-3333 x106 | FAX: 301-767-3340
Shabbat Services: Saturdays, 9:30 a.m.
We are an affiliate of the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation
and part of the Chesapeake Region of the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation
(CRJRF)