Upper Midwest Pagan Email List,
"The Tribal List"
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Greetings,
This list is a place where upper Midwestern and Twin Cities
area pagans (including rural Minnesota, Northern Iowa, and Western Wisconsin) can get together online as a group resource. This is a gateway for new area pagans seeking
resources and contacts. Most folks requesting information about the Sacred Harvest Festival are on this list as are many past attendees. Though there are lists that cover part of this
territory, groups of many paths, organizations and solitaries
can use this one. We welcome all Pagan spirituality, including Shamanism, Wicca, and other Earth based and Earth Friendly beliefs.
Please sign up for this list
and help
build pagan community in the Upper Midwest.
To Subscribe send a message to Tribal-request@harmonytribe.org
with just the word:
subscribe
in the "SUBJECT LINE" of the message. That's it!
To unsubscribe send command to the same address, just put unsubscribe in the subject line!!
If you want to subscribe an address other than the one you are sending mail FROM, email me with an explanation and I can add the address manually.
Send Tribal List Messages to Tribal@harmonytribe.org once you are subscribed.
This is a Majordomo list, which means you can join and leave on your own. I approve these changes but messages are UN-censored.
Why not Yahoo Egroups for this list?
Hey if you trust the major corporate Internet players with your words and address, go for it!!
Check out the email list survival guide!
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Use this list to share:
- Events, opportunities, and meeting notices of pagan interest.
- Start philosophical discussion.
- Ask questions of personal beliefs.
- Music events, reviews, and Concerts.
- Share narrative articles, writing, or poetry.
- Ritual summaries and ideas.
- Hand drum events.
- Contact information for your group or self
This is an open forum based on
mutual respect and open minds.
Use this list
Mail lists are made a valuable resource by those
who use them.
Let's USE this list to get to know each other, keep up to date
with happenings, and understand and accept our differences!
If you need help you can always Email Webwizard.
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***********Email List Survival Guide ***********
As this list develops, you may not like it at times. Those who are new
to email lists, please be aware that everyone wants a list with only posts
and information personally informative and uplifting for you. As this is a
free for all, this is not possible. You will have to wade through threads,
humor, disagreements, and comments you may not like.
To aid you in this:
- Learn to use your delete button freely. You need not even read a
post to delete it...no one will know. You are allowed to scan the days posts
by subject, highlite them all, hit delete.
- If members of the list frequently post irritating things to you, set
your email filters to ignore posts from those persons. If your email doesn't
provide for this...get one. Several shareware programs are available. Be
aware though that something irritating may be important for you.
- Deal with your fear of posting. It is yours. If the discussion isn't
going the way you would like it, it is your job to add the comments that
change the direction or the scope(range of content).
- Start "threads" (a group discussion which has the same subject) that
are meaningful for you. Again this is your job to make this list meaningful
to you. Keep the subject header current to the thread in all messages. That
way others can sort their mail by subject and delete or read all messages
with that subject.
- Deal with the risk that no one will want to reply to your thread. If
no one replies it doesn't mean anything more than at this point in time no
one chose to reply. It is not a comment on you, your ideas, or their
significance.
- Always remember most members are "lurkers". Those who choose to
listen in to the discussion but not participate. They are always welcome,
but since they never speak, their views can not be assumed. Nor assume that
anyone that is speaking on the list talks for them. Active contributors define an email list. If you are unhappy with
the list, become a contributor.
- Get a life. If the activities of this list consume your waking
thoughts, you are probably focusing a little too much on its content, the
people involved, fantasy interpretations of words, and its importance in
your life and for the Pagan Community. Please keep this in mind.
If someone chooses to leave or join the list, it is their choice. No one, or
the list itself, is responsible or to blame. Numbers don't make a list,
active contributors do. A list is like anything, it is built by those with
the energy and vision to persist. Active participants are the builders. If
you want a skyscraper, better join in the foundation. some are not cut out
for an email list. It takes time, energy, reading and writing ability, and
desire. You will never get just what you want. The issue of control and
censorship often comes up. If it is a major issue for you there is a good
chance these are issues in the rest of your life being expressed with
inflated importance on this list.
If you persist on this list please have the same trust that you have
when you talk to folks in person. Things will work out, what seems critical
today will be in perspective tomorrow, and when all is said and done,...
a
tribe will appear.
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