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slackdocs:mailing_list [2012/09/03 03:54 (UTC)] – finalized nocturnal.slackerslackdocs:mailing_list [2012/09/21 23:40 (UTC)] – [Mailing List Howto] typo sycamorex
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 === Your First Email to the List === === Your First Email to the List ===
  
-Let's say you want to write an article about how to use [[https://rsync.samba.org/|rsnyc]] to automatically backup a certain file on your system every night at 2100hrs. You feel it's a useful tutorial, but you want to see what the staff editors and the rest of the community would think about it before you start writing it. That's a good thing to do, by the way. The staff and the community are there to help and guide potential contributors to this project.+Let's say you want to write an article about how to use [[https://rsync.samba.org/|rsync]] to automatically backup a certain file on your system every night at 2100hrs. You feel it's a useful tutorial, but you want to see what the staff editors and the rest of the community would think about it before you start writing it. That's a good thing to do, by the way. The staff and the community are there to help and guide potential contributors to this project.
  
   * Using the email method of your choice (webmail, stand-alone [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_client|email client]], etc.), you formulate your message to the list.   * Using the email method of your choice (webmail, stand-alone [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_client|email client]], etc.), you formulate your message to the list.
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           * Click the send button.           * Click the send button.
  
-That's it. Your message is zooming to the central mailing list server where it will be resent out to the entire membership. Individual members who care to will now be able to reply to your message.+That's it. Your message is zooming to the central mailing list server where it will be resent out to the entire membership. Individual members who care too will now be able to reply to your message.
  
 === You Got a Reply === === You Got a Reply ===
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