Jennings and Ponder * SheefraJennings and Ponder * Sheefra(this comes first, because if you need it, you need it NOW)
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Most of the following customary code of conduct is not restricted to the Storytell list, but applies throughout the 'net.
Because people are joining all the time, and because people who've been on the list for a long time sometimes forget, for awhile we found ourselves repeatedly posting certain suggestions and requests. While they may look like a bunch of "thou shalt nots," we're a pretty mellow bunch, actually, and nobody's keeping score. But Storytell is an unusually busy list, and things go more smoothly when we tend to follow these
Please do not quote entire posts, just enough to show what you're talking about.
If you must use a long quote, make your comments at the top, or they may not be read.
Consider responding just to the writer-- do all 500 subscribers *need* to know "I agree"?
Be careful not to forward or quote a private (offlist) message to the list, unless you first get the sender's permission; this is taken very seriously. Look at the header: if it doesn't say "storytell" somewhere, it's private. (Conversely, if you are sending a private message to somebody on the list, tell them so in the message, it's easy to miss otherwise.)
Keep in mind, this is an international list. Local terms like "k-3" will not be intelligible to everybody.
In general, upper-case reads as shouting. PLEASE DO NOT SEND POSTS THAT LOOK LIKE THIS or nobody will listen to you, or even get sore; they'll just sigh & delete.
When a discussion heats up, ask the following questions before you post: "Is it true, is it necessary, is it kind?" If you still want to send something incendiary, wait a day or two.
If somebody reacts angrily to something you sent, even though it hurts, it's best to stay calm; usually it's a misunderstanding, and when it isn't, you lose credibility by flaming them back. There's a community here, and it's mostly on the side of civilized discourse.
Never ever send us anything that begins, "Send this to everybody you know." No virus warnings, chain letters, etc. These are *always* hoaxes &/or spam. Always.
If you're getting ready to quote
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we will all bless your heart if you take the time to clean the thing up.
Please do not attach anything. Do not open any attachments. It's an easy matter to copy-and-paste text into the body of your post, where it will get read by many more people.
(1) Attachments can and sometimes do carry a worm or virus. (Your computor will probably not catch this, unless you open it.)
(2) Some people are still on dial-up; gentle-spoken members of this list have been known to get almost abusive when faced with a ten-minute download.
(3) Many attachments cannot be opened by people who do not have your software.
Additional Formatting Concerns (contributed by Tom Farley)
(1) If you use Outlook Express for your emailer, please change the default setting "enriched text", which duplicates the text of your mail in HTML code below the regular text message. In addition to more than doubling the size of your message, the latter part comes out unreadable on most other mail readers.
(2) Some other mailers have similar features, as well as settings to send colored, bold, italic, or other stylized text, usually as an option rather than as a default. While it may be fun to use these with family and friends, please send only plain text to lists and newsgroups. Please deactivate the MIME and HTML coding of messages sent to any mailing list. Ideally, you should leave this feature off all the time, except when you specifically want to send formatted text, pictures, or audio files to someone you know has the capability of reading them. Please check that any preformatted signature files are also plain text, not HTML, and include no attached image files or reference cards.
(3) When you cite an URL for a web-page, consider giving the full form beginning with http://, rather than just the www. part. Many mail can use prefixes like <http:> <mailto:> and <news:> to make clickable links. You can put < and > around these links in text to point them out, keep ordinary punctuation from being read as part of the link, and identify the ends of long URL's that break between two lines.
Announcements of your upcoming storytelling festival, new storytelling recording, book, newsletter, etc, are welcome until they are repeated, at which point they may begin to look like spam. Sending us your schedule, or telling us about individual performances & workshops, is iffy-- how many people are likely to be able (or interested) in attending? People hate spam, and your purpose may be thwarted. Much better to become a part of the community and slyly work it in-- people will want to know, then.
Posting stories here is welcome when they are oral stories, i.e. in form and language suitable for oral telling (not reading aloud) to an audience. Creative writing should be posted somewhere else unless it relates to the list purpose, described directly below.
STORYTELL, sponsored by the School of Library and Information Studies at
Texas Woman's University is a forum for discussion about storytelling. All
persons interested in storytelling are invited to participate: professional
storytellers, amateur storytellers, people concerned with the rich history
of storytelling, people who enjoy listening to stories, and those who speculate
about the place of storytelling in the 21st century. The list will promote
collaboration among those interested in storytelling, reflecting diverse
viewpoints from around the world. The list is a place for discussion of
issues and interaction on topics of concern to the storytelling community.
It can serve as a source for information on conferences, workshops, and
events or a place to ask (and answer) questions about derivations of stories,
intellectual freedom concerns, or organization of storytelling events. The
Storytell community is diverse in many ways -- profession, age, ethnicity,
geography, gender, class, etc. -- a fact participants might consider in
posting and reading messages.
The TWU Official Storytell Page is here: http://www.twu.edu/cope/slis/storytell.htm
The encyclopaedic FAQ-in-progress, maintained by Tim Sheppard, is here: http://www.timsheppard.co.uk/story/faq.html and requests your input.
Texas Women's University library runs this thing. I used to have a lot more instructions here because the official instructions were very hard to follow, and the software kept changing. Things are much better now.
The following information is accurate as of October 2007, and hasn't changed in several years. There is lots more on the TWU website-- worth a look. If things have changed, and the site moved, by the time you read this, try this-- it ought to lead you to what you need..
Once you have subscribed, to post a message to all the people currently subscribed to the list, just send mail to storytell@listserv.twu.edu This is the "list address." You send mail to a single address and the listserv program makes copies for all the people who have subscribed.
Another common way to post is by using the reply function of your mail program. If you "reply to sender only," the list won't get it, it's just a private email to whoever sent the original message. If you "reply to sender and all other recipients," the original poster will get the message twice: once directly from you, and once from the list. This isn't necessarily either good or bad; consider deleting the poster's address before sending.
Do not try to send commands (eg "signoff, damn it! I said signoff!!!!") to the "list address." If you do, they will be distributed as a post to all of us, and annoy us, and do you no good at all.
All commands must be sent to the "administrative address,"
here: majordomo@lists.twu.edu
The administrative address sends your command to the Texas Women's University's computor (which hosts this operation, for free, out of the goodness of its heart) where it is automatically processed, untouched by human hands.
Here's how to subscribe and unsubscribe
- Paste or type majordomo@lists.twu.edu in the "to:" line. Enter anything or nothing in the "subject:" line, enter nothing in the "cc:" line. Paste or type the command(s) in the message body.
- Do not put anything else in the message body. The computer does not understand anything except for listserv commands. Additional text will cause the computor to send error messages to you. (The commands should still work, though, so don't panic if you forgot and left your signature affixer on.)
- Note: The commands are listed below in capital letters; you don't have to use caps. Follow the command with your email address.
(to subscribe to the list)
SUBSCRIBE STORYTELL you@youremailaddress.whatever
(to remove yourself from the list)
UNSUBSCRIBE STORYTELL you@youremailaddress.whatever
- There are many other useful commands--
I use the options to set mail and nomail without subscribing and unsubscribing, get copies of my own emails, and not get acknowledgement of receipt of said emails-- but you'd best go look at the official website. Everytime I wrote out my favorites here, they changed the commands.Personally, I'd rather not get the digest form, I find it harder, not easier, e to cope with. I like to receive posts as separate letters, and have my mail program automatically shunt all the Storytell traffic into its own mailbox. That keeps it separate from all the stuff you need to look at, and takes the heat off. You can read and delete, sort by thread, and search flexibly and at your leasure.
compiled from members of the storytell list
this is a work in progress; suggestions are extremely welcome