Cohousing-L Summary mailings
To subscribe or unsubscribe go to: C-L-sum Info Page NOTE THAT TO POST most easily you'll probably also want a no mail mode subscription to Cohousing-L see NO Mail subC-L-sum Introduction
C-L-sum@cohousing.org is a second mailing list which emails a WEEKLY summary of the messages distributed by the main cohousing-L mailing list in the past week. The purpose is to provide a low volume email way of for people to monitor current topics on cohousing-L. It is easy to read selected messages via the Cohousing-L Messages web pages (formerly called the archives). While it is possible to simply vist the archives periodically to browse messages, C-L-sum comes to your inbox where you'll be reminded of the ongoing discussions. See sample summary below or via the C-L-sum archives Summaries C-L-sum is somewhat experimental and may evolve. Summary preparation requires some manual effort by a volunteer; the current goal of a summary every Wednesday has generally been met for 11 months. See Implementation notes / BLOG Summary message format Threads (messages and replies with the same or similar subject line) start at the left margin. Most active threads are usually listed first. The original message in each thread has the first message's author on the same line. Note that if the original message in a thread was in a preceding summary, it and it's author are not listed. The summary's subject line highlights active threads and has the tag [C-L-sum]. To read messages go to Cohousing-L Messages The url of this page is in the header of each summary. Messages listed in a recent summary will be listed tho not in the same order - they are generally in date order. Find the date range and then the thread of interest. Going directly to a message. It is possible but somewhat tricky to to go directly to a message listed in a summary. I regret that I have not found a good explanation for doing this... In the archives each message is a separate file with a name like: msg12345.html And a URL (web address): http://lists.cohousing.org/archives/cohousing-L/msg12345.html In this example the "12345" is the messages 'number". The message number is listed (after the posters name) in the summary. To go directly to a message Copy and paste the following (incomplete) URL (also in summary's header): http://lists.cohousing.org/archives/cohousing-L/msg.html into your browser's location box. Edit it slightly: Paste the message number (from the summary after the sender's name) after "msg". To respond to messages (to all subscribers), you should send your message to cohousing-L@cohousing.org as usual. Please do not reply to summary messages. Please copy and paste the subject of the message you are replying to and (adding "Re: " if needed). TO POST to cohousing-L most easily you need to be subscribed to Cohousing-L but you probably want that subscription in "no mail mode" which can be set via forms at the Cohousing-L Info Page You'll probably need to use the form there to request your password first. Posting and "replying" Send messages to cohousing-L@cohousing.org You can not reply to cohousing-L messages but you can post messages that look like replies. o Send message to cohousing-L@cohousing.org o Use the original subject line with "Re: " o copy and paste anything from original message from archives needed for context. ----------------- Sample summary -------------------------- Cohousing-L msg summary for Dec 13 to Dec 21 2005, msg# 22598 - 22621 To read messages go to http://lists.cohousing.org/archives/cohousing-L Or edit in message number and go directly: http://lists.cohousing.org/archives/cohousing-L/msg.html For details about use, format: see http://L.cohousing.org/c-l-sum.htm Book Review FROM: Charles R. Durrett-22621 Re: authentic communication REPLY FROM: Tree Bressen-22610 bibliography FROM: Mlj45-22614 REPLY FROM: Tree Bressen-22617 Re: Children: Letting them work it out REPLIES FROM: jsutfran-22598, aamato-22599 Re: great rooms and ommon house spaces REPLIES FROM: Tree Bressen-22602, Sandy Thomson-22609, Dave and Diane-22611 Mortgage referrals for construction lender due diligence FROM: Clifford May-22603 REPLIES FROM: John Beutler-22604, Robert-22605, Dahako-22607, Sharon Villines-22608, Clifford May-22612 Re: Wells-Fargo as mortgage lender REPLY FROM: Juniperjojo-22606 Need leads for accessibility grants FROM: Dwight A. Ernest-22613 queries during conflict FROM: Tree Bressen-22616 REPLIES FROM: Sharon Villines-22618, Sharon Villines-22619 Bay Area guest room? FROM: Patricia Chadwick-22601 grants for green? FROM: kshute1-22615 Sunward Cohousing Home for Sale, Ann Arbor, Michigan FROM: Michael McIntyre-22600 -----------------End of Sample summary --------------------------Implementation notes and BLOG
The summaries are prepared with a little manual assistance by Fred, the list manager but are largely prepared by a computer macro running on Fred's computer. The macro downloads the current archive index page and extracts subject lines from the last week and after some reorganizing by Fred, formats the summary and then uploads and sends it. BLOG: 6/8/06 Post another message on Cohousing-L about C-L-sum after some editing of this page and adding notes to Info pages: o C-L-Sum Info page by the Subscribe form o Cohousing-L Info page in Using Cohousing-L section o Cohousing-L Info page by the Unsubscribe form 5/4/06 C-L-sum announced on cohousing-L 4/25/06 Weekly messages have been and continue to be produced since the beginning of 2006 tho a few have not been sent on time - see C-L-sum archives Still not yet publicized due to software problems 3/16/06 Due to connectivity problem on computer that produces summaries, yesterday's summary was not produced on schedule. I now have a workaround to produce it but discovered that summaries since Feb 8th had not gotten posted! (They were sent to a different address for test and the address did not get put back.) I have them and will post them shortly. 3/1/06 Publicizing the Summaries has been delayed repeatedly. The software is not robust enough. Little glitches in format, roughness in the user interface combined with the infrequent use - once a week - mean that it becomes increasingly hard to fix glitches. So far I've gotten a summary posted each week but it's been more difficult than I'd like. Also it is still awkward to subscribe. I had hoped to develop special forms on the Cohousing-L web page to subscribe in summary mode. Ideally one would have 2 subscriptions: regular subscription to C-L-sum AND no mail mode subscription to Cohousing-L (to allow posting) So I have further delayed publicizing C-L-sum. 1/20/06 c-l-sum still not publicized to cohousing-L subscribers while a few details being considered. See next entry. 1/20/06 , Friday prepare summary that was not prepared (oversight) on Wed 1/18 Discover complication with preparing summaries that don't end with most recently distributed cohousing-L message. (This is due to the archive date index being based on the date messages sent by poster rather than date distributed. These dates can differ a bit if the message was "rejected" (held for review by list manager). Jan. 2006 email a few cohousing-L subscribers for feedback about summaries Dec. 2005 write macros to produce summary and create list to distribute them Fred's Link page