SUBSCRIBING TO THE SASKATOON BY NIGHT  LIST SERVER

A "listserver" is like an electronic bulletin board.  Anything you e-mail to the listserver address will be forwarded to everyone else on the listserver, and you will receive anything anyone else e-mails to the listserver.

The Saskatoon By Night listserver is an out-of-character way for the SbN players, and anyone else interested in the game, to share information about the game, upcoming events, or just about anything else. Standard "netiquette" applies:

Put a short, but descriptive and appropriate header into the Subject line of your posting, because people will use this header to select your posting out of many postings.

Keep your posting short, because many people do not take the time to read more than a few screen-fulls of information. But do not omit necessary details.

If you reply to a question or follow-up to an article, include the essential parts of the original question in your posting, but only the essential parts!

Before you post something to the net, ask yourself whether it is really necessary to publish ("post") it to everyone on the listserver, or whether it might be sufficient to "mail" it only to the person concerned. Remember the difference between the "reply" and the "follow-up" functions (or whatever they are called) of your newsreader program.

Do not mis-use the listserver for personal flames, silly jokes, commercial or political advertising, chain letters, or anything else that is not of general interest. And never follow-up to any of these if they happen to occur. Usually it is best to ignore them (hoping that someone else will take care of the offender) and to put the offending subject line or author name into your "kill file". If you must react, then use private mail to the author.

Read more about appropriate electronic behaviour in general.