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Updated in January, 2005
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The Woodc@rver Mailing list is a gathering place for online woodcarvers from around the world. Since its creation in April, 1996, this listserve has grown into an thriving and helpful community where ideas, resources and friendship are shared. As of January 1st, 2001, the Mailing List has a subscriber base of around 600 members.
This list also serves as the anchor for numerous sites that provide a wide range of woodcarving-related links across the internet.
This list is seen by a growing number of carvers as the most important online carving resource to date.
The Woodc@rver Mailing list was maintained and moderated for the first year by the list-owner, W.F. (Bill) Judt on a voluntary basis.
Thereafter the Woodc@rver Mailing list has been supported by annual donations from its users/subscribers. Annual donations will help defray the cost of Server/ISP charges plus the time and labour to maintain the list. Newcomers to the list are encouraged to try out the list for a month before deciding to support the list with their donation. Subscribers who remain with the list are encouraged to send the equivalent of $25 (see below) to the List-Owner as their contribution to the support of the list.
The idea of requesting donations is to ensure the continued existence and prosperity of the Woodc@rver Mailing list. It is important that the list pay its own way if it is to be healthy. Remember: THE LIST DOES NOT NEED TO BE WEALTHY, JUST "HEALTHY" :-)
Your donation is NOT a subscription fee or an annual membership fee. Even if you choose not to support the list financially, you are still welcome to use and enjoy this list. Although the information on this list is free, as is the access to it, the support system which makes this list possible is not free. It costs money. Please consider supporting this list with your annual donation.
Personal Check donations should be sent to:
Bill Judt
46 Harvard Crescent,
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
S7H 3R1
It's as easy as sending a personal cheque or postal money order for the equivalent of $25. You may also make a donation via PayPal, an electronic money transfer service with full security features.
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Please DO NOT CONVERT YOUR CURRENCY to Canadian funds. Your cheque will be converted from your currency to Canadian funds when it reaches its destination. Simply check with your bank to determine what amount (in your currency) is equivalent to $25 Canadian, and make your check/postal money order out in that amount.
If you wish to support the list with a larger donation, it would be most welcome. American subscribers might wish to make their cheques out for $25, which, when they reach a Canadian destination, will convert to a larger figure in Canadian funds, since the Canadian dollar is usually valued lower than the US dollar.
This method of contributing allows you to send the donation with the least amount of trouble. This method is possible because Canadian Banks, being national and standardized country-wide, are able and quite willing to convert your cheque from US/Australian/U.K./NZ/ German/Norwegian/Russian currency without charge. This saves you the cost of converting the funds at your end.
Note: Please include your email address on the cheque so your contribution can be identified properly.
You will meet people from around the world who do a wide variety of carving, from relief to sculpture, from whittling to caricatures. Expect also to become part of a network of woodcarvers, each of whom has learned a set of skills and techniques, and gathered resources for tools and materials all of which will be useful to other list subscribers.
Our woodcarving listserve will allow each of us to encourage others in the craft, share craft secrets, reveal sources, make important contacts. It will also generally promote woodcarving as one of the most pleasurable of pass-times we know.
...in a loose sense of the word. This means that the list owner will periodically contribute advice and direction to help all list subscribers to attain the highest standard of communication between themselves.
By saying this list is MODERATED, it does not mean (at least for the immediate future) that the list owner will have to approve subscription requests or approve messages when subscribers wish to post them. But if we encounter a person who is using the list for the wrong reason, or harrassing list subscribers, the list owner will intervene with appropriate remedial action.
A certain amount of "CHAT" is allowed and even encouraged on this list because, we have found, it serves to build fellowship amoung our subscribers. FELLOWSHIP is just as important on this list as the exchange of woodcarving-related INFORMATION.
If CHAT annoys you in the least, you might find this list a bit of a bother, and perhaps the number of messages that are not strictly information-based will cause you distress. This being the case, you should not subscribe at all. Think of this list as a cross between a "newsgroup" and a "mailing list".
The whole idea of "loose" moderation is to allow carvers like yourself to use and enjoy the list to the mutual benefit of all subscribers. I trust that moderation, self control and general politeness will abound where this list is concerned.
One rule with regard to CHAT. If you wish to send a message to the List that contains mostly "chat", then prefix the subject header of your message with the word "Chat". This will allow people who do not like chat to FILTER OUT these messages. It also allows those who LOVE chat to find it easily.
Of course, the List is not meant to be strictly a CHAT line, so moderation in the use chat, like in anything else is appreciated.
Please avoid automatically sending every reply to the LIST. Decide before hand if everyone needs to hear your reply (especially the "...me too!" replies). If your reply would better be sent to just one person, please substitute the list's address in the REPLY TO area with the address of the person concerned. This is a matter of nettiquette and common courtesy.
Commercial messages are not encouraged unless they show respect for the right of the subscribers to enjoy an advertizing-free enviroment. If you wish to advertize a new commercial product or service, please offer subscribers a CLICKABLE-LINK which will direct them to a web page where the advertizing information is available. This way subscribers can be informed of new commercial products and service, and still be allowed to choose whether they will take advantage of the information.
You must send all your commercial announcements to the List Owner who will post the message on your behalf, providing that it is useful and considerate in its content.
...IS NOT ALLOWED. The reason is that each image must go out to a large number of people, placing a REAL BURDEN on the SERVER as well as those who do not wish to wait many minutes for a large image file to download.
If you wish others to see an image of your carvings, upload them to your website, or that of a friend, and send a message to the LIST containing an URL that points to the page where your image is to be found.
There are two ways you can subscribe to the Woodc@rver Mailing List.
The first is called the REGULAR list. This format sends a stream of individual messages to your email box as they arrive at the list.
The second is the DIGEST format, where messages from the list are collected and placed into a single document, which is sent to you when it reaches about 32k in size. Some days, when the list is real busy you might receive TWO or more digest documents.
You may set your preferences for REGULAR or DIGEST mode as you wish.
Many subscribers access the internet from their workplace. This means they will also subscribe to the Woodc@rver Mailing List from the office. Most offices employ a dual email address scheme that gives a worker two email addresses, one for outgoing mail and a slightly different one for incoming mail. Some subscribers have two email addresses for a variety of other reasons. Regardless, two email addresses mixed with one LIST is a recipe for trouble!!!
If you subscribe to the LIST with one email address, and then later attempt to send messages to the LIST with the second email address, your message will not reach the LIST. The LIST only accepts messages from addresses that are part of its subscription database. Instead, your message will "bounce" to the list owner (that's ME :-), and then I have to tell you to use only one email address for all interaction with the mailing list.
Please, please, please, CHECK ALL YOU E-MAILER SETTINGS to ensure that you are using only one email address for all interaction with the list. If your messages are STILL not reaching the list, talk with your systems manager at work to see if you can resolve the "dual email address problem".
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