Regular/"Loose" Mail Version ~ The lists' normal form is where a subscriber receives each post to the list. This can result in 30 to 60 or more emails a day from the list.

SPECIAL NOTE TO AOL SUBSCRIBERS: When on this version of the list, with potentially 30 to 60 emails a day, if you don't check your email for four days or more, your email box may fill up and you'll miss out on some posts, plus all the ones sent to your full box bounce back to the list administrator and it causes him/her a lot more work. So please, if you start to fall behind in your reading and/or plan to go away for a few days, please consider unsubbing from this version and subscribing to the digest AND Jewel-news. If you wish to do this and can't figure it out or have trouble doing it, feel free to email me at DuckSoup@quackquack.net for assistance, I'd be glad to help :)

Digest Version ~ The list also comes in a digest version. Each post to the list is automatically compiled into the current digest. When the digest reaches at least 20K in size, the server sends out a copy of this digest to all of the subscribers to this version of the list. Thus, over the course of a day, a subscriber to this version will receive each and every post sent to the list. However, instead of the 30 to 60 emails per day, a subscriber will receive two to four digests per day, dependant upon the days' email volume. Here's a sample digest to read :-)

News Only Version ~ The list comes in a NEWS only version. It consists of posts to the regular list that are deemed to be Jewel news by the current moderator of the Jewel-News list. There are certain criteria they follow to determine if a post is to be Jewel-News. As in the other versions, subscribers to this version can contribute to the regular Jewel mailing list by sending an email to Jewel@smoe.org. Also, to directly contribute to the NEWS list, a subscriber to ANY of the three versions can send an email to Jewel-news@smoe.org. Posts to this address are still evaluated by the moderator of this list, however by emailing it to Jewel-news@smoe.org, it makes it "stand out" to the moderator, to make sure he/she doesn't miss the post while scanning the "loose" mail for Jewel news-worthy posts. By the way, I highly recommend to ALL subscribers of the Jewel-Digest version to also subscribe to the Jewel-News version. If you fall behind in your digest reading, you won't have to miss anything "important" as the Jewel-news posts will "stand out" and you can read them first.

To subscribe and/or unsubscribe to one or more of the three versions of the list, you should just send an email to the respective email Subscription address for that list (see chart below) and put ONLY the word subscribe or unsubscribe (depending on the action desired) into the BODY of the email, NOT the subject. If your email program requires a subject, you can put anything you want in it. If subscribing, a few minutes after sending the request email, you will get an email from confirm@smoe.org, along with an email from majordomo@smoe.org. You will HAVE TO reply to the one from confirm@smoe.org. Its' SUBJECT will be similar to one of the following, depending on the list you are going to subscribe to:

• Confirm subscribe jewel (CCDF955-3808CB5)
• Confirm subscribe jewel-digest (CCDF955-3808CB5)
• Confirm subscribe jewel-news (CCDF955-3808CB5)

The code/key number above (CCDF955-3808CB5) WILL be different in your case, and it will also appear in the body of the email from confirm@smoe.org. You HAVE TO reply to that email, and as long as the subject or body of your reply contains the code/key number, it will work. A few minutes later you should receive two more emails, a confirmation and one entitled "Welcome To Jewel", which is the same one you received when you first subscribed to a Jewel list. (Please save this "Welcome To Jewel" email and refer to it when necessary, or visit Adams' Jewel FAQ site)

Again, the email addresses to subscribe and/or unsubscribe to the three lists, plus the necessary commands, are as follows: