St Barnabas List-Serve

Purpose:

This list (stb-general@lists.bnetmd.net) exists as a forum for distributing issues of interest to St Barnabas Parish. After reading this message, please save it for future reference. It contains helpful information about how to subscribe, unsubscribe, and send various other commands to the list.

Recently, Fr Mullins sent a message using the list-serve, announcing its existence and providing this information. If you received that e-mail, then you are already subscribed to the list. If you didn't, you are welcome to subscribe to the list as discussed below.

Etiquette Guidelines:

To send a message to everyone on the list, simply address it to "stb-general@lists.bnetmd.net". At the moment, stb-general is a fully open, unmoderated list, and will stay that way as long as members are careful to abide by standard Internet etiquette. Here is a short summary of the guidelines we should all try to follow:

1. Be brief. Most members of this list are too busy to read long messages and may prefer to press the "delete" key if your message is too long. With this in mind, please do not copy a previous message in your reply unless the message was posted at least a week earlier. Instead, take the time to write a line or two explaining which message you are responding to.
2. Be clear. Out of respect for the other people who will be reading your message, take the time to proofread it at least once. Make sure your ideas are clear, your grammar is correct, and silly spelling mistakes are corrected. This requires you to spend a bit more time on your message, but it saves everyone else time in trying to figure out what you're trying to say!
3. Be polite. If you are offended by something somebody has written, it is best to contact that person privately. If your personal attempts to resolve the problem are unsuccessful, or if you are concerned about a certain person or the tone of certain messages, contact the listowner. Do not "flame" the person on the list.
4. Reply conscientiously. The "reply" function is set to reply to the individual who wrote the message rather than to the group. Use "reply all" to reply to the whole group. But before doing the latter, always stop to consider whether your message is really intended for everyone. When it becomes apparent that a conversation is developing between only two or three persons, it should be continued through private e-mail, with periodic summaries posted to the list inviting others to join in. If "lurkers" are interested, they'll make that clear by asking you to continue the conversation on the list.
5. Avoid attachments. If you have an attachment that you think some people may want, there are two options. First, request people contact you individually for the attachment. Otherwise, forward the attachment to Todd Lutton. He will rapidly load the attachment on the church server, and return a link (url) you can include in your e-mail. People reading the e-mail will be able to download the file at their leisure.

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Questions

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