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Welcome to the aquatic plants mailing list



Welcome to the aquatic plants mailing list! 

We finally in operation, thanks in no small part to Mark Rosenstein
who has let us use the mailing list management software at actwin.com.

This introductory message contains information on 
a) The purpose of the mailing list
b) Sending and receiving mail from the list
c) Administrative functions (such as subscribing and unsubscribing)

More from me later.

a) The purpose of the mailing list
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   The aquatic plant mailing list is intended to be a medium for exchange
   of information about all aspects of growing aquatic plants as a hobby.
   Postings on both aquarium plants and pond plants are welcome. Topics of
   discussion include (but are not limited to):

   1. Individual plant species (identification, cultivation, propagation, etc.)
   2. Aquascaping
   3. Substrates - pros and cons of commercial substrate additives, potting
      soil, peat, etc.
   4. Water conditioners and fertilizers
   5. Hardware - heaters, filters, surface skimmers, etc.
   6. Compatibility of fish  and other organisms with aquatic plants
   7. Trades/exchanges between hobbyists (advertisements from 
      commercial-scale operations are not permitted.)


b) Sending and receiving mail from the list
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   Regular contributions should be mailed to aquatic-plants at actwin_com.
   These are compiled into digest form and mailed out twice daily - at
   3:40am and 3:40pm.


c) Administrative functions
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   SUBSCRIBING
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   To subscribe to aquatic-plants, send the following in the body (not
   the subject line) of an mail message to "Majordomo at actwin_com":

	subscribe aquatic-plants

   This will subscribe the account from which you send the message to
   the aquatic-plants list.

   If you wish to subscribe another address instead (such as a local
   redistribution list), you can use a command of the form:

	subscribe aquatic-plants other-address at your_site_your_net

   UNSUBSCRIBING
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   To unsubscribe from aquatic-plants, send the following in the body (not
   the subject line) of an mail message to "Majordomo at actwin_com":

	unsubscribe aquatic-plants

   This will unsubscribe the account from which you send the message.
   If you are subscribed with some other address, you'll have to send
   a command of the following form instead:

	unsubscribe aquatic-plants other-address at your_site_your_net

   If you don't know what address you are subscribed with, you can send
   the following command to see who else is on the list:

	who aquatic-plants

   If you want to search non-private lists at this server, you can do that
   by sending a command like:

	which string

   This will return a list of all entries on all lists that contain "string".

   HELP
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   To find out more about the automated server and the commands it
   understands, send the following command to "Majordomo at actwin_com":

	help

   If you feel you need to reach a human, send mail to

	aquatic-plants-approval at actwin_com

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Shaji Bhaskar                                              bhaskar at bnr_ca
BNR, 35 Davis Dr, RTP, NC 27709                            (919) 991 7125