Posted by TenantNet on March 22, 1997 at 09:15:00:
NYTENANTS DISCUSSION LIST
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This message will tell you about the NYTENANTS mailing list
and give you some basic information how to get on and off the list,
how to send and r
eceive messages and basic commands. Please save
this message for future reference.
CAVEATS
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First, if you're not from New York and are still looking for a
general TENANTS mailing list, that will come soon, so send us a
messa
ge at tenant -at- tenant.net and we'll put you on the general Tenants
list when it gets up. These lists are running on the Majordomo mailing list software,
which is similar to Listserv.
ABOUT NYTENANTS
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It's really three lists:
o NYTENANTS is the main list. It's a two-way discussion list operating on
Majordomo software. Every time you post a message, it gets "exploded"
out to the rest of the list where any subscriber can respond and their
respons
e is then exploded in a similar fashion.
o NYTENANTS-DIGEST is essentially the same list in terms of content, but it
works differently. Instead of having each and every message coming to you
individually, the software "collects" th
e messages and at a pre-determined
time (about once a day depending on traffic) you will receive a digest of
that day's messages all in one big message. You can then read and/or reply
to that day's messages all in one sitting. T
his is a much saner approach
and we advise everyone to take advantage of the digest format. Everyone
on the pre-existing list will be placed on the digest list.
o NYTENANTS-ANNOUNCE is a one-way list for announcements or alerts. I
f you're
on either NYTENANTS or NYTENANTS-DIGEST, we will place you on NYTENANTS-ANNOUNCE.
Description and Policies
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The NYTENANTS, NYTENANTS-DIGEST and NYTENANTS-ANNOUNCE mailing lists
are for discussi
ons about issues and problems facing New York City and New
York State tenants, and the sharing of information.
Examples of relevant topics include Rent Control, Rent Stabilization,
other forms of rental housing, Housing Court, DHCR, politic
al issues,
landlords, etc.
Examples of non-relevant issues include postings on apartment availability,
queries by people looking for apartments, etc.
Comments on particular landlords are permitted if they relate to their
practice
as a landlord, i.e., how they treat tenants and how they conduct
their business or maintain their building(s). It should be remembered that a
discussion list is an open canvas and that what is stated by list members
is their opinion and not ne
cessarily the opinion of TenantNet or any other
list subscriber or reader.
NYTENANTS is a MODERATED discussion list where all postings will be
approved by the moderator. This policy is intended to filter out noise,
spamming and to keep
the level of discussion high. This is a forum for those
with an interest in L&T issues and we hope the discussions will be of value
to tenants and housing professionals. If you want the chaos of a democracy,
or if you wish to rant and rave, go
to Usenet. Approval by the moderator
is based on appropriateness and not whether or not TenantNet agrees with
the content of any particular message. The original poster is still
responsible for the content.
PLEASE NOTE: this is a discussi
on list and not a Question and Answer
column. We have spent much time developing content on the web site and
we encourage its usage. TenantNet will not respond to every query, and
we encourage list members (especially those with L&T experience
) to
contribute and keep the discussions alive.
If, in our opinion, a particular message is more appropriate for
NYTENANTS-ANNOUNCE, we will post the message to that list. We reserve
the right to use our discretion in maintaining these
lists and/or to
amend these policies at any time.
BOUNCES occur when a list message gets returned for a variety of
reasons, i.e., the list member's email address is no longer active,
they have a vacation message on, their mailbox is ful
l (on some of those
awful gateways). This is a problem for mailing list programs as the
bounced message can then explode back to everyone else creating a
non-ending loop. As the list is moderated, we hope to catch these problems
before the
y occur. If we receive several bounces from your email address,
we'll probably drop you from the list and it will be your responsibility
to resubscribe and retrieve the archives to find out what you missed.
Archives
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All messag
es to the list will be archived (if you have trouble,
let us know). The archives are available via Majordomo using the "get"
command (send "help" in the body of a message to "Majordomo@list.tenant.net"
for more info). The archives are broken d
own by year and month, and are
stored in files named "nytenants.YYMM".
Frequently-Asked Questions (FAQ) and other Files
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Although not operational yet, we anticipate you will be able to
ge
t the Tenant FAQ and other basic files by sending an e-mail message to majordomo@list.tenant.net with "get file filename" in the body of the message.
The Tenants FAQ is available on TENANTNET which you may access via
the World-Wide Web at http:
//tenant.net. You will find that TenantNet
contains much information on Landlord-Tenant issues, particularly relating
to New York.
TENANTNET also maintains a web-based bulletin board system where public
messages may be posted, at http:
//tenant.net/forum/board/index.html. In the
future we hope to combine the bulletin board and these mailing lists. If
you do not have web access, we might (and we emphasize "might") be able to
help you via email at tenant -at- tenant.net. We strongly
discourage individual
case questions via email as we simply do not have the time to respond to
every query.
FUTURE PLANS
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At the present time we can not distinguish between those who have interest
in NYC issues from o
ther areas of the state. If there's enough interest, we
could be persuaded to create a separate NYS list. Once we work out any bugs
on NYTENANTS, we do plan a general TENANTS list covering just about everywhere
else. If there's enough interest
, we might be persuaded to create other
specific-interest lists, i.e., California, Boston, Housing Professionals,
Organizers, Tenant Attorneys.
Basic Commands
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you are not
familiar with Majordomo mailing lists. In 6 months you will be glad you saved
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SUBSCRIBING
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To SUBSCRIBE to one of the lists, send email to majordomo@list.tenant.net
and in the body (not the
subject line) of the message, indicate one of the
following:
For NYTENANTS-DIGEST subscribe nytenants-digest your-email
For NYTENANTS subscribe nytenants your-email
For NYTENANTS-ANNOUNCE subscribe nytenants-announ
ce your-email
A typical line would read: "subscribe nytenants-digest jdoe@domain.com". Please
do not put your real name where you should put your email address. After your
subscription request is approved by the moderator, you will be notified.
If you
encounter any difficulties, please send us email at tenant -at- tenant.net.
The default subscription will be to NYTENANTS-DIGEST and you will also be added to NYTENANTS-ANNOUNCE.
UNSUBSCRIBE - to get off the list
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messages (depending on which list you're on) in the BODY of your message to
majordomo@list.tenant.net.
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r-email
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Sending Mail to the List or Replying:
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It is very important to understand the difference between the two, but
fortunately it is not complicated.
Just Remember This:
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list server: majordomo@list.tenant.net.
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