Email Group FAQ

Last updated: Jan 10, 2006
Maintainer/Moderator: Joseph Bennette

First a reminder:

1) Please remember that your emails are read by a community of people, not just one person.

2) Please remember that you are addressing a real person, a human being with feelings and not a computer.

3) Please remember that if you make a comment, other people are perfectly entitled to disagree with it without their response being construed as a personal attack.

4) Please remember that by participating in this forum you subscribe to rules of conduct and that the moderators are entitled to edit or delete posts they consider inappropriate or to permanently ban offending members of the group.

The Questions

1. How do I subscribe to, unsubscribe from, or change my email address for hypno-oregon egroup?
2. What topics are discussed on this group?
3. What should NOT be posted to this group?
4. Who administers this group?
5. How do I access the message archive?
6. How do I find messages on a particular topic?
7. Is there a group file archive?
8. Links

The Answers

1. How do I subscribe to, or unsubscribe from this group?

To subscribe, send an empty message to hypno-oregon-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. You will then receive an automatic confirmation message that you must reply to in order to become subscribed.

To unsubscribe, send an empty message to hypno-oregon-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com. 

You may also use this method to change your email address: 

• First, following the steps above, unsubscribe using your old email address, 
• Then subscribe using your new email address. or,
• Do the same thing on the Web at http://groups.yahoo.com

If you can't do that (like when you only have the new email address and no longer have access from your old email address) just email the moderator with the change. Please do the former process first to cut down on the work the moderator has to do. Thanks.

2. What topics are discussed on this group?

Here's the inaugural description:
"The Oregon Hypnotherapy Association is dedicated to preserving professionalism in the practice of Hypnotherapy in Oregon. Members of the OHA and those interested in the practice of Hypnotherapy in the Northwest United States are welcome to join this group. Ask questions, get answers, share stories, discuss topics of interest to you and others, and learn more about this exciting field."

NOTE: Please adhere to conventional rules of netiquette.

3. What should NOT be posted to  this group?

• Copyrighted materials (without the owner's permission)
• Advocacy of illegal activities
• Flames of other list members
• "I can't subscribe to the [such-and-such] mailing list! Can somebody help me?" messages
• Messages consisting of Jokes that aren't relevant to our topics.
• Messages that use html merely for aesthetic effect. (However, for longer works in which html is used to delineate the organizational structure of a complex concept, html is acceptable.)
• Spam - defined as unsolicited offers for products and/or services.

If you want to discuss any of the above matters, please do it by private e-mail! If you don't know whom to contact, e-mail the list administrator or the maintainer of this FAQ.

4. Who administers  this group?

The administrator is Joseph Bennette. You should send administrative enquiries to Joseph, and not to the list itself.

5. How do I access the message archive?

• The list archive can be found at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hypno-oregon. 
• You need to be registered with egroups first in order to be able to access the archive. See the Yahoogroups help page for instructions on how to register.
• If a message in the archive appears to have no text in it that may be because of a known bug in the egroups software that prevents some messages from displaying properly in some browsers. In that case, clicking on "source" in the upper right-hand corner will usually let you see the message text.

6. How do I find messages on a particular topic?

To do a message search, follow these steps:

1. Go to the message archive.
2. In the "search" field, type the words that you want to search on. If you want to search on a complete phrase, enclose the phrase with quotation marks.
3. Click the "Search in e-group" button.

Note: The search engine is case sensitive, so try your search terms with and without leading caps.

7. Is there a group file archive?

At present there are no archives maintained by the group other than that found at Yahoo Groups (see item #5 above).

8. Links

• The Oregon Hypnotherapy Association official web site
• Directory of members of the Oregon Hypnotherapy Association