Ruth wrote: > Dear Joy, I am responding to your amusing post on the silver-list site, > so am using that e-mail address. I am totally lost re how to use this > site. Where do I find a basic explanation of what this CS stuff is? As > it is, I am getting a multitude of messages daily, none of which make > any sense to me. Would you , when you have time, clue me in to how to > manage this better?
Dear Ruth, You sent that message to the list address rather than Joy's. No harm, though, as it means I can give you some pointers! (I'm the list owner, so there's reasons why I should want to do it, besides the obvious one that I'm a nice person! <grin>) I'm sending a copy of this to you directly, *and* another to the list, so you'll probably see two copies of it. Don't worry about that. I just want to make sure you see it, and also want to share it with the group in case there are other new people who could benefit. The silver list is an e-mail based conversation amongst a bunch of people. Everybody who wants to say anything gets up, says it so the whole group hears it, then the next person, and so on. Each time a member posts to the list, copies of their message go out to all the subscribers. Being just a conversation, you either have to listen along until somebody says something you're interested in, or else *ask* about what's important to you to spur some comments in that direction. There are usually several different topics under discussion at any one time. So posts coming in one after another may be talking about any of several things, or something altogether new, or a topic that was talked about a few days ago that they're resurrecting now. Also, some of the posts will be chit chat, humor, or off-topic but interesting stuff that somebody brings up. I do not keep the topic extremely strictly on colloidal silver for a several reasons: One is that the group has thoroughly covered the main topic many times and it's only if a new person asks for help that there's much reason to cover it all again. Another reason is that some measure of chit-chat helps keep the place alive, friendly, and welcoming. (Too much, of course, wastes time and energy for people who may not have enough of either! It's my job to try to keep that balance.) A third reason is that people *always* bring up health related questions and some of the answers they deserve to hear are unrelated to Colloidal Silver. I encourage such questions and all relevant answers since that's really our mission, to help people. I only ask that the non-CS related stuff be ended or taken to our Off Topic list or private e-mail after basic information is given and initial curiosity is satisfied. Being that you're using Hotmail, I know that it is possible to set up a filter so that the many messages from the list will show up in a separate folder, rather than mixed together with the rest of your mail. It's under the Options link and Filtering or Sorting, I think. Learn to do that and you'll have a lot easier time keeping things straight. Also, look at the bottom of every message from the list. You'll see a footer there that includes several addresses of interest... Visit the Silver List web site to read the list rules and instructions for managing your subscription. Unfortunately, there's no CS information there, but the address of our web archives is there in the footer as well. You can do simple searches on various subjects and read more or less relevant messages going back as far as 1997! We have some very well informed and experienced people on this list, plus many helpful folks with their own stories to tell. It's a valuable resource, so it's worth some effort learning to use it, even as it's worth my effort to guide it. Any procedural questions or other needs you may have, please don't hesitate to contact me at mdev...@eskimo.com so I can help. Others on the list are likely to offer as well. Welcome to our little community. Be well! Mike Devour silver-list owner [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [mdev...@eskimo.com ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
