Ventana Wilderness Alliance Email List
Members in good standing of the Ventana Wilderness Alliance are invited to join a private, yet unmoderated, environment where issues, questions, comments, ideas, and procedures pertaining to the expansion, management and protection of the Ventana and Silver Peak Wilderness Areas, as well as concerns of the northern Santa Lucia Range, are discussed in a forum setting via email. It is oriented towards those who are actively involved with these issues. Additionally, it serves to inform members of Ventana Wilderness Alliance (VWA) activities.
If you are not yet a VWA member and wish join the group and subscribe to the list, please do so either by way of our online membership form or by filling out and mailing the printable membership form.
The Ventana Wilderness Alliance email-list is a discussion list available to all members. For further information or assistance with this list, please send a message to the listkeeper, Mike Splain, at mike@ventanawild.org
Once you've subscribed to the list the commands are simple:
To post a message to the list, send your message to:
ventana@ventanawild.net
A reminder is sent out once a month concerning your Ventana list membership. The URL link in the reminder will take you to a web page where you may change your membership status or configuration, including unsubscribing, setting digest-style delivery or disabling delivery altogether (e.g., for a vacation).
How a mail list works.
After subscribing to a list, you send e-mail to the list's primary address and every other subscriber receives your message. One or more other subscribers may then respond to your question or comment and discussion will ensue. Every subscriber then becomes a participant in or observer of this public conversation. Of course, there may be more than one conversation taking place at any given time, especially if the list is large. For this reason, when you reply to another subscriber's post, it's best to include the relevant part of his or hers original message (but not the entire message unless it's necessary). Including this text is up to your discretion, but most people tend to do so, since it makes discussion easier to follow. It's also very important to use clear subject line descriptions every time you post a message. This way, your fellow subscribers can easily scan their in-boxes for messages of interest. The subject line of all postings will also be automatically prefixed with the initials "[VWA]" by the list server, making messages from the list easy to identify at a glance.
To avoid duplicating information, we ask that "alerts" and information disseminated by other mail lists, not be posted or forwarded to this mail list unless germane to its subject.
If you have any questions or need any assistance, please contact Mike Splain at mike@ventanawild.org.
Ventana Wilderness Alliance Email List FAQ
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Which topics are suitable for posting to the VWA mail list?
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Issues, questions, comments, ideas, and procedures pertaining to the expansion, management, protection and enjoyment of the Ventana and Silver Peak Wilderness Areas, as well as concerns of the northern Santa Lucia Range are discussed. General wilderness and National Forest topics that have a significant relationship to local issues are acceptable. For example, a Pacific Northwest old-growth forest issue would not be on topic on the VWA mail list.
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As the range of suitable topics is narrow, if your post could be interpreted as an inappropriate topic for the mail list, please forward a copy - prior to posting - to the mail list administrator for review.
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If you believe that a post to the mail list violates this FAQ, please notify the mail list administrator of your concerns, not the party that posted the message.
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There is an abundance of other environmentally oriented mail lists available for those who wish to keep informed of a broad range of topics that are beyond the scope of the VWA mailing list.
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Personal attacks, profanity, and vulgarity will not be tolerated. Violation of this policy will result in the immediate termination of your VWA mail list subscription.
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Issues, questions, comments, ideas, and procedures pertaining to the expansion, management, protection and enjoyment of the Ventana and Silver Peak Wilderness Areas, as well as concerns of the northern Santa Lucia Range are discussed. General wilderness and National Forest topics that have a significant relationship to local issues are acceptable. For example, a Pacific Northwest old-growth forest issue would not be on topic on the VWA mail list.
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Is it okay to post forwarded messages?
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Forwarded messages may be posted IF they are on topic (see above) and they have been re-formatted to eliminate any quotation markings and jumbled sentences or paragraphs. Also, please ensure that the mail list is the only recipient in any of the address headers. Forwards should not be CC'ed to the mail list.
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Good netiquette also suggests that the person forwarding a message to a mailing list should include a paragraph in their own words at the top of the forwarded message detailing how the message is germane to the subject of the mailing list.
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Forwarded messages may be posted IF they are on topic (see above) and they have been re-formatted to eliminate any quotation markings and jumbled sentences or paragraphs. Also, please ensure that the mail list is the only recipient in any of the address headers. Forwards should not be CC'ed to the mail list.
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When should I reply to the mail list and when to the poster of a
message?
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The default is currently set to send replies to the sender of the message. Change the address header to ventana@ventanawild.net to share your reply with the rest of the mail list subscribers. RSVPs and messages directed to a specific individual should be addressed to only that person, not to the mail list.
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The default is currently set to send replies to the sender of the message. Change the address header to ventana@ventanawild.net to share your reply with the rest of the mail list subscribers. RSVPs and messages directed to a specific individual should be addressed to only that person, not to the mail list.
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Why am I no longer receiving postings from the mail list?
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The most frequent cause is that you have changed your e-mail address. Your e-mail address is "on file" with the mail list server and it has no way of knowing that it has been changed. Please let me know of any changes in advance so your list mail won't be interrupted.
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The most frequent cause is that you have changed your e-mail address. Your e-mail address is "on file" with the mail list server and it has no way of knowing that it has been changed. Please let me know of any changes in advance so your list mail won't be interrupted.
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Is a daily mail list digest available?
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Yes, a mail list digest is compiled each day, combining all messages to the mail list for the day into a single message. This message is then sent to subscribers each day after midnight. If you prefer to receive your mail list messages in this manner, please send a request to the e-mail address below, not the mail list.
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Yes, a mail list digest is compiled each day, combining all messages to the mail list for the day into a single message. This message is then sent to subscribers each day after midnight. If you prefer to receive your mail list messages in this manner, please send a request to the e-mail address below, not the mail list.
Mike Splain
Mail List Administrator
mike@ventanawild.org.
