TRILLIUM- L
The Trillium
and Woodland Plants Discussion Group
Thanks
to Eric Gouda, Curator of University Botanic Gardens,
To subscribe, send an e-mail to: Listserv@hearn.nic.surfnet.nl
with the following in the body of the message:
SUBSCRIBE TRILLIUM-L followed by
YOUR NAME (not email name), LOCATION,
AND USDA ZONE and/or MINIMUM TEMPERATURE
This is a free and non-moderated e-mail list centered on the discussion of identification and cultivation of woodland (shade loving/tolerant) plants.
Recent topics that have been discussed include:
- Trillium identification (of course!)
- Hellebore cultivation
- Paris/Daiswa identification
- Trillium Propagation
- Cypripedium transplanting techniques
- Hepaticas
Active List owners:
Jim McClements jimmcclem@aol.com
Mike Slater mslater@voicenet.com
Or to send to all List owners (silent & active): Trillium-L-request@hearn.nic.surfnet.nl
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The Trillium-L Welcome Letter:
We are happy to welcome you to Trillium-L, and wish to take this opportunity to tell you a bit about how we hope the list will function and what our goals are.
While the primary focus will be Trilliums and Trilliaceae (Paris/ Daiswa, etc), the list is also intended to include other hardy woodland plants, with the exception of Arisaemas, a genus having its own list, Arisaema-L.
Membership is open to anyone interested in the subject matter. The list will not be monitored, but you are encouraged to stay "on topic". While not a requirement, it would be appreciated if you were to post a brief "bio" with particular reference to what trilliums or other woodland plants you grow and/or have expertise with. If you prefer to "lurk", fine!
Information about who you are, where you live and a little bit about your growing conditions will often be necessary for anyone to reply to a question you may post, and it is nice to have. So when you post any mail to Trillium-L, questions or information, please sign: YOUR NAME, YOUR LOCATION, YOUR HARDINESS ZONE or MINIMUM TEMPERATURE.
Exchange of information, as detailed as desired, within the subject area, is the primary goal of Trillium-L. Some of us have fairly extensive collections of Trillium literature, copies of which can be made available as desired, or perhaps scanned and sent as attachments.
In addition, the list should facilitate the exchange of seeds, and even plant material. We don't plan any kind of central seed exchange, but hope that members will post the availability of seed as it is collected so that distribution can be arranged on an person-to-person basis. Requests for seed should be sent DIRECTLY to the donor, NOT posted on Trillium-L. Postage costs should be borne by the recipient unless otherwise arranged. One way to do this would be for the request to be made by email, followed up by the sending of a SASE to the donor. Trans-oceanic exchange can be handled as the parties agree, but such matters should be discussed up front so that no hard feelings will result. Postage costs can add up to significant numbers.
In addition to the information exchanged on Trillium-L, it is our eventual goal to gather information and photos on a web page for both list members and the web-browsing public.
Please don't hesitate to contact us if any questions or problems arise, or if you have any suggestions as to how we may better achieve our goals.
Some basic listserv command and instructions which are sent to new Trillium-L subscribers by Listserv. This is placed here for Trillium-L members to refer to.
If you ever need to leave the list, you will find the necessary instructions below. Perhaps more importantly, saving a copy of this message (and of all future subscription notices from other mailing lists) in a special folder will give you instant access to the list of mailing lists that you are subscribed to. This may prove very useful the next time you go on vacation and need to leave the lists temporarily so as not to fill up your mailbox while you are away! You should also save the "welcome message" list owners sent when you subscribed to Trillium-L..
To send a message to all the people currently subscribed to the list, just send mail to TRILLIUM-L@NIC.SURFNET.NL. This is called "sending mail to the list", because you send mail to a single address and LISTSERV makes copies for all the people who have subscribed. This address (TRILLIUM-L@NIC.SURFNET.NL) is also called the "list address". You must never try to send any command to that address, as it would be distributed to all the people who have subscribed. All commands must be sent to the "LISTSERV address", LISTSERV@NIC.SURFNET.NL (or LISTSERV@HEARN.BITNET). It is very important to understand the difference between the two, but fortunately it is not complicated. The LISTSERV address is like a FAX number that connects you to a machine, whereas the list address is like a normal voice line connecting you to a person. If you make a mistake and dial the FAX number when you wanted to talk to someone on the phone, you will quickly realize that you used the wrong number and call again. No harm will have been done. If on the other hand you accidentally make your FAX call someone's voice line, the person receiving the call will be inconvenienced, especially if your FAX then re-dials every 5 minutes. The fact that most people will eventually connect the FAX machine to the voice line to allow the FAX to go through and make the calls stop does not mean that you should continue to send FAX ES to the voice number. People would just get mad at you. It works pretty much the same way with mailing lists, with the difference that you are calling hundreds or thousands of people at the same time, and consequently you can expect a lot of people to get upset if you consistently send commands to the list address.
You may leave the list at any time by sending a "SIGNOFF TRILLIUM-L" command to LISTSERV@NIC.SURFNET.NL (or LISTSERV@HEARN.BITNET). You can also tell LISTSERV how you want it to confirm the receipt of messages you send to the list. If you do not trust the system, send a "SET TRILLIUM-L REPRO" command and LISTSERV will send you a copy of your own messages, so that you can see that the message was distributed and did not get damaged on the way. After a while you may find that this is getting annoying, especially if your mail program does not tell you that the message is from you when it informs you that new mail has arrived from TRILLIUM-L. If you send a "SET TRILLIUM-L ACK NOREPRO" command, LISTSERV will mail you a short acknowledgement instead, which will look different in your mailbox directory. With most mail programs you will know immediately that this is an acknowledgement you can read later. Finally, you can turn off acknowledgements completely with "SET TRILLIUM-L NOACK NOREPRO".
Contributions sent to this list are automatically archived. You can get a list of the available archive files by sending an "INDEX TRILLIUM-L" command to LISTSERV@NIC.SURFNET.NL (or LISTSERV@HEARN.BITNET). You can then order these files with a "GET TRILLIUM-L LOGxxxx" command, or using LISTSERV's database search facilities. Send an "INFO DATABASE" command for more information on the latter.
This list is available in digest form. If you wish to receive the digested version of the postings, just issue a SET TRILLIUM-L DIGEST command. This will send you one message a day which contains all the messages for the day collected into one message.
Please note that it is presently possible for anybody to determine that you are signed up to the list through the use of the "REVIEW" command, which returns the e-mail address and name of all the subscribers.
More information on LISTSERV commands can be found in the LISTSERV reference card, which you can retrieve by sending an "INFO REFCARD" command to LISTSERV@NIC.SURFNET.NL (or LISTSERV@HEARN.BITNET).
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