Hypo FAQs - 2. About the Mailing List

Hypoglycemia FAQs
2. About the Mailing List

2.1 Regular list	2.3 Archives
2.2 Recipes list	2.4 Posting guidelines

This section contains information about:

the regular hypoglycemia mailing list
the digest version (1 big post per day)
the recipes list
the archives
posting guidelines

If you want to subscribe or unsubscribe to the Hypoglycemia Mailing List please follow the guidelines below. The latest information about the Hypoglycemia Mailing List can be found at Allie's site: http://hypo.iceblue.com.au. Information about other mailing lists useful to hypoglycemics (e.g. low-carb list, The Zone list) can be found at http://huizen.dds.nl/~hypo/maillist.htm.

2.1 REGULAR LIST

The hypoglycemia mailing list is populated with people who suffer from non-diabetic types of hypoglycemia. All topics related to this subject are welcomed. The purpose of the list is to share information and support each other. It's a closed list: you have to subscribe first, before you can post. More info at http://hypo.iceblue.com.au.

List Maintainers	:	Allison Hobson and Meher Davis <owner-hypo@iceblue.com.au>
Number of members	:	325 (May '97)
Size of traffic	:	25-50 messages/day
List start	:	Dec. 1995
Subscribe to list	:	Send email to <hypo-request@iceblue.com.au> Put this in the body: `SUBSCRIBE HYPO`
Unsubscribe	:	Send email to <hypo-request@iceblue.com.au> Put this in the body: `UNSUBSCRIBE`
Order FAQs	:	Send email to <listserv@lists.princeton.edu> in the message Body put: `information HYPO-L` leave the Subject-field blank
Subscribe to Digest ¹		Send email to <hypo-request@iceblue.com.au> Put this in the body: `SUBSCRIBE HYPO DIGEST`

¹ If you can't handle the amount of messages generated by the regular mailing list, you should consider switching over to the digest version of the mailing list. Instead of single messages you get one big message per day containing all day's messages of the regular mailing list. The messages are identical to those of the regular mailing list.

2.2 RECIPES LIST

This is a separate list, meant to share low-carb and other safe recipes with each other.

List maintainer	:	Allison Hobson <allie.hobson@centris.net.au>
Size of traffic	:	A few messages per week
Subscribe recipes list	:	Send email to <recipes-request@iceblue.com.au> Put this in the body: `SUBSCRIBE`
Unsubscribe	:	Send email to <recipes-request@iceblue.com.au> Put this in the body: `UNSUBSCRIBE`

You can find other (safe) recipes at the:
Low Carb Recipe FTP-archive: ftp://ftp.nmcs.com/pub/lowcarb/recipes
Zone Recipes link page: http://members.aol.com/ajbloom/zoneveg/index.html
Recipes from the news group rec.food.recipes: http://www.neosoft.com/recipes/

The latter one is just a massive index of all kinds of reipces, no safety guarantee there.

2.3 ARCHIVES

The archives of the mailing list are kept by our founder, Joe Bernstein <josephb@tezcat.com>. Write to him if you want to catch up on old discussions.

The most informative postings of the mailing list can be found at Joe's Health Page, http://www.tezcat.com/~josephb/health/ . His archiving policy can be found at:
http://www.tezcat.com/~josephb/health/hypoarchives/policy.html .

Back issues of the digest are also available, but only back to early August, 1996. Ask Alejo <ah@cs.princeton.edu> how to get them.

2.4 POSTING GUIDELINES

Allow me to give a few tips for posting new messages or replying to existing messages on the list.

POSTING -- Please, try to match the subject of your message as closely as possible. A subject like "Newbie introducing herself" will be somewhat more descriptive than "Hypoglycemia". "My 6-hour GTT values and how I felt" has a lot more information than just "GTT". This saves people time when selectively reading messages, and lessens the burden on our archiver too.

REPLYING -- To keep traffic down, please trim away unnecessary parts of a message, and keep the parts you are actually responding to. If you want to fresh up people's memory, you could insert a one or two-sentence reminder about what the discussion was all about.

DIGEST VERSION -- Please, don't include the *whole* digest in your reply. Trim away the other messages, or cut and paste only the original into your reply. This keeps people's mailboxes from overflowing. In addition, try to match the subject of the original message. This way, the subject will be more descriptive than "Re: HYPO-L digest #".

If you're not familiar with email and the Internet, please do *not* follow the advices given at http://www.clari.net/brad/emily.html (Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquette).

The most up-to-date copy of this FAQs can always be obtained from:
Hypoglycemia Homepage Holland: http://huizen.dds.nl/~hypo/faq

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