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Welcome to the aquaponics mail group. PLEASE SAVE this message for future
reference if you ever wish to change your subscription or have questions
for the list owner.
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You are subscribed to the e-mail discussion list "aquaponics", an open list
specifically for aquaponics - the combined systems of aquaculture and
hydroponics. All who are interested in learning and sharing information
about this and related topics are invited to participate.
This group, provided by S&S Aqua Farm, will cover any and all aspects of
this exciting subject. We encourage those who have operating systems, are
in the set-up process, those who have a beginning or general interest to
participate.
Tom and I agreed to sponsor this list because we believe there's a great
deal of benefit in being able to freely exchange information with others of
common interest. And, we love to talk about this practice of combining
aquaculture and hydroponics methods. It's what we do, and we feel we can
only learn more by participating in a group where that is the primary
topic.
An open forum mail group was our final decision, as opposed to a moderated
or by-special-invitation-only list. It's provided without charge and
without restriction, other than that which common courtesy dictates. We
really enjoy this list and want it to continue to be a productive forum for
information exchange.
Following are some details and suggested list etiquette to make your list
experience more satisfying.
CONTENTS of this file:
I. General Description of list
II. List Etiquette/Community
III. Subscribe/unsubscribe information
I. GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Aquaponics mailing list is a general information exchange forum and
cyber-community of folks who share a common interest in aquaponics and
related subjects. We discuss such topics as general growing system issues,
growing your own food, water conservation and energy systems, agriculture,
food safety and nutrition, environmental issues related to aquaculture and
agriculture, ag technology, plant and aquatic species, etc.
Although the emphasis is on aquaponics, you don't need to have a system yet
to participate - in fact you may be interested because you think you'll be
healthier, because you want to be easier on the environment, you enjoy the
rewards of self sufficiency, or you want to evaluate a lifestyle change.
Whatever your abilities or reasons for being drawn to this list, you are
welcome. Any topic may be discussed. In order to bring the topics into
the areas you want, we encourage everyone to post their queries,
observations, comments and suggestions for how this type integrated system
should, does or might work.
** Other Boring Technical Guidelines **
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1) Only subscribers may send posts. If you are subscribed under one email
address and try to send a post from another, your post won't go through.
2) If you change your email address, please unsubscribe your old address
before changing, if possible! If not, please contact us at
snsaquasys@townsqr.com, and we'll take care of it.
3) If you are going away for an extended period and your Internet provider
places a limit on how many messages you can receive (AOL and Juno, for
example), please unsubscribe until you return and are able to keep up with
your mail. If your mailbox is always full it creates more work for the
list server and administrator.
4) When posting, especially when replying to someone else's post, please
check your TO: line and make sure the address matches the one above.
Sometimes your mail headers may cause the "Reply" option to reply to the
person privately when you intend to address the whole list. Please just
edit the TO: line and correct it in this case. Do NOT use the "Reply To
All" option of your mailer software, as this will cause multiple copies of
your message to be sent to the list and create more work for the
administrators. :-)
5) Please don't clutter up the list with excessively long signatures or
quote an entire message when replying to it (if you can help it!). Quoting
only relevant points in the message will be very helpful to the discussion.
II. LIST ETIQUETTE/COMMUNITY
This list is primarily a source for exchange of information on aquaponics.
However, topics you believe to be of general interest are encouraged and
invited. We only ask that you consider the topic and length of the post
before sending. If questionable, please send a summation and request
private inquiries.
We are a highly diverse group from many different countries, cultures and
backgrounds, and do not identify as a whole with any particular religion,
creed, political party or anything else. Please accept reponsibility for
keeping the discussion respectful and reasonable, even in disagreements, or
take your discussion off-list. The variety of needs, plans, proposed uses,
sizes of
operation, locations, interests and "experience" levels expressed by those
who've written us indicate that there will be times where this may be
necessary.
Advertising on this list, and most others, is seriously discouraged.
However, we have several members whose products or publications are of
probable interest to a large number of our subscribers. In order to enable
the group to become aware of and evaluate these items, we are initiating the
following policy:
Monthly Member "Ad" Day will be the 15th of each month. Please observe the
following guidelines for courtesy.
1. Preface your subject line with the word "AD".
2. Please keep posts to minimum size to convey your message.
3. Ads need not necessarily pertain to aquaponics; related topics/referrals
are accepted.
4. Do not post graphics.
5. Do not include attachments.
6. Please, use good judgement on content for our international community
of members.
We hope this will allow some leeway for our members with commercial
interests in aquaponics, those wishing to report on items of general
interest to address the group, and be of benefit to all subscribers.
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Although this list is unmoderated, there are some things which will cause
your name to be deleted from the group, so be warned:
1) SPAMMING the list with any advertising material other than the
designated Ad Day. We do have people on the list who have aquaponics-related
businesses, and it is acceptable to post information about the business in
response to an inquiry about your particular line of work, to mention it in
passing if you are a regular contributor, or to post a link to a web page
describing your business. Spamming is considered to be either information
that is obviously a non-specific "form letter" that is sent to many
different places, or references to your business in *repeated* postings
that are unsolicited (no one on the list asked you for the information).
2) SLANDER of another individual on the list. Stating a negative OPINION
about someone is not considered slander, although we certainly ask you to
exercise good manners and not resort to name-calling. Slander means
accusing a person of something you cannot prove is true, e.g. that another
list member has a drug problem or anything that may similarly reflect badly
on the person's character. Publicly posting private information about
another person, e.g. addresses, phone numbers or family members' names,
without the person's consent is also considered slander.
3) Sending ATTACHMENTS to the list. Sending an attachment to everyone,
while you may think it contributes to the discussion, only bogs down the
server and costs many people time and frustration in downloading data that
they may be unable or unwilling to open anyway. Attachments can contain
viruses, so many people make it a general policy not to open any attachment
from an unknown source. So if you have an attachment you think it would be
worthwhile to share, please just post an announcement and email it
PRIVATELY to those who ask for it, e.g. "Hey, I've got a great .GIF of some
drawings of (whatever)! Email me if you'd like a copy!"
Note also that many email programs these days send attachments without your
even being aware of it. If you like to play with fancy formatting,
signatures, greeting cards, or sending HTML code along with your email, do
NOT do so when posting to this list! Please make sure your mailer software
is configured to send text only. Of course, if you do accidentally send
attachments, you'll be sure to get a chorus of hollering from list members,
and can contact your Internet provider for help if you don't know how to
stop the attachments.
III. SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE INFORMATION
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If you ever want to remove yourself from this list, send an e-mail to:
aquaponics-request@townsqr.com
in the body (or message area) type:
unsubscribe
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To post messages to the group, send e-mail to:
aquaponics@townsqr.com
Messages to this address will AUTOMATICALLY BE BROADCAST TO ALL LIST
MEMBERS.
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If you wish to subscribe to the digest format for this list, which will
be sent once per day, send a message to:
aquaponics-digest-request@townsqr.com
no subject.
In the message body:
subscribe
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Once confirmed, you may unsubscribe from the individual message format
and avoid duplicate postings by sending a message to:
aquaponics-request@townsqr.com
no subject
In the message body:
unsubscribe
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People will not be able to send messages to
-- they will have to send any messages to
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If you ever need to get in contact with the owner of the list (comments,
suggestions, questions), send e-mail to: snsaquasys@townsqr.com.
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INTRODUCTION
After you feel comfortable with the list, we would like you to introduce
yourselves to the group. A short summary of who you are and what your
interest areas are will help direct the topics to the needs of the group.
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For a more detailed explanation of the S&S Aqua Farm system, please see
the web site at http://www.townsqr.com/snsaqua
Again - welcome to all!!!
Tom and Paula Speraneo
S&S Aqua Farm, 8386 County Road 8820, West Plains, MO 65775 417-256-5124
Web page http://www.townsqr.com/snsaqua/
S&S Aqua Farm, 8386 County Road 8820, West Plains, MO 65775 417-256-5124
Web page http://www.townsqr.com/snsaqua/
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