Subject: Introducing New List-Agriculture Activist

From: "Elizabeth Pike" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 19:30:39 -0500

Agriculture Activist (agriculture-activist) mailing list.

A mailing list for Activism in Agriculture has been started
courtesy of UNC MetaLab's Lyris server. Please distribute this
announcement wherever appropriate. The market-farming and csa
lists may be of interest to many of you; information about it,
this list and other agriculture and permaculture forums can be
found at http://metalab.unc.edu/intergarden.

Elizabeth Pike
Lawrence London
agriculture-activist list co-owners

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Agriculture Activist Mailing List FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions about the
Agriculture Activist discussion group

* WHAT IS Agriculture Activist?

Name of list: agriculture-activist
Posting address for list: [email-masked]

The listowners are:

Liz Pike
Morningstar Gardens
[email-masked]

Lawrence London
Venaura Farm
[email-masked]
[email-masked]
http://metalab.unc.edu/intergarden

* HOW DO I SUBSCRIBE TO Agriculture Activist?

Self-subscribe through the Web by accessing the website at
http://franklin.oit.unc.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=agriculture-activis
t

Subscribing & unsubscribing to agriculture-activist
using email instead of the Web interface:

In case you do not have Web access or for any reason need to use the
email interface, here are some key commands:

In all cases, the default server address is:
[email-masked]

This is the email address to send commands to change the status of
your
account. Other addresses are shown where appropriate. Note that
commands
may be placed in either the subject line or in the body of the
message. For some actions you have several choices of commands and you
may use the one that suits your preferred mode.

SUBSCRIBING:
subscribe agriculture-activist
subscribe agriculture-activist your_name
join agriculture-activist
join agriculture-activist your_name
alternate address: [email-masked]

UNSUBSCRIBING:
unsubscribe agriculture-activist
leave agriculture-activist
alternate address: [email-masked]

SETTING MEMBERSHIP TO DIGEST MODE:
set agriculture-activist digest

SETTING MEMBERSHIP TO INDEX MODE:
set agriculture-activist index

SETTING MEMBERSHIP TO DISCUSSION MODE:
set agriculture-activist mail

TEMPORARILY SUSPENDING MAIL FROM THE LIST: set agriculture-activist
nomail
RESUMING MAIL FROM THE LIST:
set agriculture-activist mail
set agriculture-activist digest
set agriculture-activist index

You may subscribe as an e-mail list, a digest of that list or just
gain
access to the usegroup which gives you access to posts from the web
but
doesn't deliver them to your mailbox. If you lack web access, or the
e-mail commands don't seem to work, e-mail [email-masked],
[email-masked] or [email-masked] with your email
address and (optional) full name, and we'll sign you up.

* HOW DO I UNSUBSCRIBE TO Agriculture Activist?

At the end of every post to this list there is text at the bottom of
the
page with automated unsubscription info and procedure. Here is a
sample
from a typical post:

You are currently subscribed to agriculture-activist as: <your email
address>
To unsubscribe send a blank email to
leave-agriculture-activist-<user number>@franklin.oit.unc.edu

OR Self-unsubscribe by accessing the website at
http://franklin.oit.unc.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=agriculture-activis
t

If you lack web access, or the instructions don't work for you, e-mail
any co-owner with your full name and email address, and they will
unsubscribe you.
PLEASE DO NOT SEND UNSUBSCRIBE MESSAGES TO THE ENTIRE LIST.

* DO I HAVE TO SUBSCRIBE TO READ THE POSTS?

You  can read the posts using the Web interface as well as the News
interface without being a subscriber to the list.

To read using the Web interface go to:

http://franklin.oit.unc.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=agriculture-activis
t
and click on the button that says "Visit agriculture-activist without
joining"

To read using the News interface use the following methods:

Method 1 using your news reader:
-
Access via Usenet news can be had by adding this news server name to
your
list of news servers in your news reader, or make it your default
server:

franklin.oit.unc.edu

Connect to the franklin.oit.unc.edu news server, download the list of
available newsgroups and subscribe to agriculture-activist.
Subscribing
to this newsgroup does not make you a subscriber to the list. You can
post
to the forum only if you are a list subscriber;
otherwise you can read articles in the forum.

Method 2 using your Web browser [+ news reader]:
-
go to this URL (i.e. type this URL into the dialog box in your web
browser)
news://franklin.oit.unc.edu (news:// is part of a URL just like ftp://
and
http://) and download the list of available newsgroups and subscribe
to
agriculture-activist.

or go to this URL:
news://franklin.oit.unc.edu/agriculture-activist for reading (and/or
posting if
you're a list subscriber)

* HOW DO I POST TO Agriculture Activist?

Send your messages to:
[email-masked]

You have to be a list subscriber to post to agriculture-activist using
either
the Email, Web or News interface. You can, however read all posts,
including the archives, as a non-subscriber.

In order to post to agriculture-activist, you must be subscribed  to
the
list
AND send your message from the email account that you used to
subscribe
to the
list. In other  words, if you have several e-mail accounts or aliases,
you need
to send e-mail from the account you used to subscribe from.

IMPORTANT NOTE: All posts to agriculture-activist are permanently
archived.
This allows folks to go back and search for specific information in a
thread.
It also means your name is archived with your post.  If this is a
problem
for you, it's best you not use this list.

*  WHERE CAN I FIND ARCHIVES OF POSTINGS TO Agriculture Activist?

On the world wide web at:
http://franklin.oit.unc.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=agriculture-activis
t

* WHAT ARE SOME OTHER WEBSITES OR DISCUSSION GROUPS
  THAT MIGHT BE OF INTEREST

SANET-MG Sponsored by the Sustainable Agriculture Network at the USDA,
this list is international in scope. It is largely populated by
academics
and the discussions are frequently philosophical and/or policy
oriented.
However, farmers frequently lurk here and research on any given topic
is
available for the asking. Archives and subscription information can be
found at http://www.sare.org/san/htdocs/hypermail

Biodynamics NOW! (bdnow),
the  international biodynamic farming and gardening discussion list.
You can join BD Now! at http://www.igg.com/bdnow
or
you can send a message to [email-masked]
put 'sub bdnow YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS YOUR NAME'
in the body of the message.

The bd-now mailing list is run by Allan Balliett
who can be reached at: [email-masked]

InterGarden at MetaLab (forums, links, information):
http://metalab.unc.edu/intergarden
http://metalab.unc.edu/permaculture

There's a special document with info on accessing all these lists in a
file at this URL: http://metalab.unc.edu/intergarden/forumdoc.txt

Lists of interest at the MetaLab Lyris server include:

agriculture-activist
csa
soil-quality
seed-saving
community-foodsystems
herb
market-farming
permaculture
permaculture-calendar

The Sustainable Farming Connection
Developed and maintained by Craig Cramer formerly editor of The New
Farm.
This site is a cornucopia of resources and topics. Sustainable
techniques
for farms of all sizes and crops.
http://sunsite.unc.edu/farming-connection/

ATTRA - Appropriate Technology Transfer to Rural Areas.  One of the
best
appropriate scale and alternative crop sites on the web. Loaded with
publications and links. This is THE site for posting apprenticeship
and
internship opportunities www.ATTRA.org

IF YOU GARDEN FOR PLEASURE, LANDSCAPE, AND EXPERIMENTATION the
following
sites may be better suited to your needs

http://metalab.unc.edu/intergarden InterGarden
Rodale Press Gardening http://www.rodalepress.com./gardening.htm
National Gardening Association www.garden.org

IF YOU HOMESTEAD OR FARM PRIMARILY AS A LIFESTYLE CHOICE AND GROW FOOD
primarily to feed your own family, the following site may be better
suited
to your needs

http://www.homestead.org

* OTHER RESOURCES

GROWING FOR MARKET is a monthly newsletter that has articles by and
about
market farmers. Good ideas and honest discussion abound. Subscriptions
are
$30/year. GFM, Fairplain Publications, P.O. Box 3747, Lawrence, KS
66046;
Tel 800-307-8949/fax: 913.841.2559. [email-masked]

THE COMMUNITY FARM A Voice for Community Supported Agriculture Edited
and
produced by Jim Sluyter and Jo Meller. Quarterly publication comes out
in
February, May, August and November. $20 US TCM 3480 Potter Rd. Bear
Lake,
MI 49614 (616) 889-3216 [email-masked]

* WHERE CAN THE AGRICULTURE ACTIVIST MAILING LIST FAQ BE FOUND?

The FAQ will be sent to you automatically to indicate
that you have subscribed successfully

OR you may read it (agriculture-activist.faq) at:
http://metalab.unc.edu/intergarden/documents/agriculture-activist.faq

OR have it sent to you by email by sending email to:
[email-masked]
with the message text or subject line containing:
get agriculture-activist-list.faq

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Lawrence F. London, Jr.  Venaura Farm
metalab.unc.edu/intergarden InterGarden
metalab.unc.edu/permaculture PermaSphere
metalab.unc.edu/intergarden/orgfarm AGINFO
[email-masked]  [email-masked]