[lace-chat] Arachne FAQ - version 1.0
Dear Spiders, Here is a first draft of the Arachne FAQ. Feedback and corrections are welcome! Let me know if I've missed anything or if something should be written more clearly for non-English speakers. Thanks. I could send this out on a quarterly basis if this is of any use. Best wishes, Avital ARACHNE FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) Version 1.0 (17 June 2004) 1. I just came back from vacation and want to read what I missed. Where are the archives? http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. I haven't received a digest for two days. What should I do? Go to the archives (see above). You can view the messages by date. If you see a lot of messages that you haven't seen before, then you are probably missing a digest. Remember that the digest does not appear every day. The list is configured to send out a digest when 22K (about a dozen) messages accumulate. If the list is quiet, you might not see a digest for a day or two. 3. I checked the archives and definitely missed a digest. Where can I get it? E-mail Avital, the moderator, at [EMAIL PROTECTED] (take the nospam out of the e-mail address). I keep backups on CDs. Occasionally I miss a digest, but my collection is fairly complete. 4. What are SPs (Secret Pals)? Secret Pals are a monthly gift swap. The current coordinator is Brenda Paternoster. E-mail her at [EMAIL PROTECTED] (take the nospam out of the e-mail address) if you want to participate. 5. How do I thank my Secret Pal? Send your thank-you note to lace-chat, not lace. If you are not subscribed to lace-chat, then you must type SP Thanks (exactly as spelled, with same capitalization) in the subject line. That should allow non-subscribers to post their messages to lace-chat. 6. Who runs the list? Liz is the list owner and I am the moderator. I take care of the day-to-day business. 7. I just got a virus from Arachne. Should I send a warning to the list? No, you shouldn't. What you got is a virus from someone else who has Arachne in their addressbook and makes the sender look like Arachne. Arachne is a majordomo list on unix machines and is currently not affected by viruses. 8. I just got a virus warning from my brother-in-law's best friend's ex-wife's boss, who used to work for Microsoft and plays golf with Bill Gates. Should I send it to the list? No, you shouldn't. Even reputable sources and computer experts slip up and there are a lot of viruses hoaxes floating around. Check it first at http://www.symantec.com or http://www.snopes.com or ask me to check it out. 9. Are the archives private? No, they're not. Mail-Archive is a free service and you get what you pay for. They are able to disguise the addresses so you won't be spammed, but it's best not to post personal details to the list like your address and phone number. 10. I'm going on vacation. What should I do? You should unsubscribe. The list does not have a no-mail option. If your account gets full and starts bouncing, Liz will ignore it for a few days. If your account bounces for more than a few days, then she will unsubscribe you. 11. I just sent a digest by accident to the list. Should I unsubscribe, change my name, and move to a place where no one knows me? Relax. The list will not accept a message as large as a digest. It will probably bounce to me and I'll trim the digest. 12. What's the rule about advertising? Generally, we discourage advertising by professional vendors because that would greatly increase the volume of the list. It is okay for a vendor to say Hi, we have blue matte contact paper if someone asks for it. It is okay if you want to sell your extra bobbins and pillows or announce that your guild has a book or pattern for sale, because those are one-off announcements. What we want to avoid are messages like This month's thread special is xxx and I just got the following 18 new books and I accept Visa, etc., etc. Announcements in sigs are perfectly okay as long as the length of the sig isn't excessive (if the sig contains 3 pages of advertising, then that defeats the purpose of this rule). 13. How can I be a model of good Net behaviour? Trim quotes: Remember that most of us have pretty good memories and it is usually not necessary to quote more than a few lines of the posting to which you are responding. Use meaningful subject lines: If you are a digest subscriber, change the subject line to something meaningful, instead of the number of the digest. Stay on topic: If it's lace-related (including lace you may have seen on vacation), it's okay to post it to lace. If it's a joke, recipe, description of your daughter's wedding, your reaction to a political figure, a movie, or a TV show, then it probably belongs on lace-chat. Please do not send a posting to both lace and lace-chat. (If you're not sure where it belongs, feel free to ask me.) 14. What is Arachne-7? Arachne-7 is a sister list for planning the joint Arachne entry for the (?? I'm
[lace-chat] :-)) Journey
Apologies for the language but I thought it too true not for everyone to see!! Jeanette Fischer, Western Cape,South Africa Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, thoroughly used, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming... 'F*ck, what a trip!' To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] SP Thank-yous
Dear Secret pals There are still a few people who's thank you messages have not yet shown up on lace-chat - and at least two that I know of should have arrived by now as they were posted in very good time. Please try to be prompt in posting your acknowledgement of receipt - the message doesn't have to be a long one, just so that I know everything has arrived OK. Brenda http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/paternoster/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Arachne FAQ - version 1.0
On Jun 17, 2004, at 11:34, Avital wrote: 5. How do I thank my Secret Pal? Send your thank-you note to lace-chat, not lace. If you are not subscribed to lace-chat, then you must type SP Thanks (exactly as spelled, with same capitalization) in the subject line. That should allow non-subscribers to post their messages to lace-chat. Add: to read the Thank You note for your own gift, go to the lace-chat archives. But, I think, better still, people who participate in Secret Pals should join the lace-chat, at least for the round they're in. The archives withold the e-address of the person who's sending the thanks, so you'd have to wade through a whole slew of them, before you identified your own (by the content), and reassured yourself that it reached the recipient in good order... If, OTOH, you're a subscriber to the lace-chat, you can scroll through all the thanks (and other stuff) that are irrelevant to you, and zero-in on the one you're waiting for. --- Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) Healthy US through The No-CARB Diet: no C-heney, no A-shcroft, no R-umsfeld, no B-ush. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] :) Fwd: Newlyweds
OK, just a tad risque language-wise but, as it's no worse than my son used to bring home from preschool 22 yrs ago (he just wasn't permitted to *use* it in the open g), I'll stick my neck out, because the joke itself is good. From: R.P. A couple had only been married for two weeks. Although very much in love, he couldn't wait to go out on the town and party with his old buddies, so he said to his new wife, Honey, I'll be right back. Where are you going, coochy cooh? asked the wife. I'm going to the bar, pretty face. I'm going to have a beer. The wife said, You want a beer, my love? She opened the refrigerator door and showed him 25 different kinds of beer, from 12 different countries. The husband didn't know what to do, and all he could think of saying was, Yes, lollypop...but at the bar...you know...they have frozen glasses... He didn't get to finish the sentence, because the wife interrupted him by saying, You want a frozen glass, puppy face? She took a huge beer mug out of the freezer, so frozen that he got chills just holding it. The husband, looking a bit pale, said, Yes, tootsie roll, but at the bar they have those hors d'oeuvres that are really delicious. I won't be long, I promise. OK? You want hors d'oeuvres, poochy pie? She opened the oven and took out 5 dishes of different hors d'oeuvres: chicken wings, pigs in blankets, mushroom caps, pork strips, etc. But my sweet honey... at the bar... you know... there's swearing, dirty words and all that... You want dirty words, cutie pie? LISTEN UP, DICKHEAD! DRINK YOUR #$%^% BEER IN YOUR *()%$ FROZEN MUG AND EAT YOUR )*^%^ SNACKS! YOU'RE MARRIED NOW AND YOU'RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE! GOT IT, ASSHOLE? And they lived happily ever after. Isn't that a sweet story? --- Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) Healthy US through The No-CARB Diet: no C-heney, no A-shcroft, no R-umsfeld, no B-ush. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] :) Fwd: Jewish Haikus
Totally un-PC but, so many of them are *just* like my Mother (and, doubtless, my son will say just like me g), that I couldn't resist... From: R.P. After the warm rain the sweet smell of camellias. Did you wipe your feet? Her lips near my ear, Aunt Sadie whispers the name of her friend's disease. Today I am a man. Tomorrow I will return to the seventh grade. Testing the warm milk on her wrist, she sighs softly. But her son is forty. The sparkling blue sea reminds me to wait an hour after my sandwich. Lacking fins or tail the gefilte fish swims with great difficulty. Like a bonsai tree, your terrible posture at my dinner table. Beyond Valium, the peace of knowing one's child is an internist. Jews on safari- map, compass, elephant gun, hard sucking candies. The same kimono the top geishas are wearing: I got it at Loehmann's. Seven-foot Jews in the NBA slam-dunking! My alarm clock rings. Sorry I'm not home to take your call. At the tone please state your bad news. Is one Nobel Prize so much to ask from a child after all I've done? Today, mild shvitzing. Tomorrow, so hot you'll plotz. Five-day forecast: feh (for Passover) Left the door open for the Prophet Elijah. Now our cat is gone. Yenta. Shmeer. Gevalt. Shlemiel. Shlimazl. Meshuganah Oy! To be fluent! Quietly murmured at Saturday services, Yanks 5, Red Sox 3. A lovely nose ring, excuse me while I put my head in the oven --- Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) Healthy US through The No-CARB Diet: no C-heney, no A-shcroft, no R-umsfeld, no B-ush. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Secret Pal TY
Dear Secret Pal, I am so sorry I didnt get your thank You out yet. We got home tonight and got your package. I loved the bobbins and the tablet is was to wonderful to use. Thank You so much. You are so great.Thanks Hannah To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
