The Medit-Plants email forum has been around since the mid-1990s. In 2017, because the original University of California, Davis listserv platform changed their default settings, I moved the list to a new platform. Here is how you can join the group at its new location.
Joining Medit-Plants
Send an email to medit-plants-request@freelists.org with the word subscribe in the ‘subject’ field (please note that this request email address should be used ONLY for subscription management). You will be sent an automatic response from ecartis@freelists.org with instructions about confirming your subscription request.
After following these instructions, you will receive a welcome message with information about the group. When anyone posts a message to the group, you will then receive that message as an email.
When you join, you might check on what the recent discussions might be as you subscribe (see ‘Archive‘ below). Please note that the archives will include messages from the old list as well as this new list, allowing them to be searched using the same web interface (many thanks to Christopher Lindsay of Hort.net for working with me to make this happen!).
Participating
After your are successfully subscribed, you will receive any new post by the group’s subscribers. To post your own message to the Medit-Plants group, send email to medit-plants@freelists.org (note that this is a slightly different email than what you used to join the group).
Please be sure that your ‘subject’ field reflects the topic of your message (an aid to help others find messages in the Medit-Plants archive). The volume of Medit-Plants is currently not high, so you may not receive a message from the group right away.
Tip – many people create an email ‘filter’ in their own email to collect Medit-Plants message into a folder so that then can be easily browsed.
Attachments
Messages can have attachments (e.g. photos), if you wish. Please be sure to use standard file extensions (such as .jpg, .gif, .pdf) that are accepted by MOST computers as each person will need to be able to open these files on their unique computer platform.
Freelists.org has a maximum message size of 5MB (a brief message with two attachments of less than 2MB will go through). Along with resizing an image smaller, consider cropping it to show the specific details you wish to share in your post. Attachments are also archived by Hort.net.
Archive
To view Medit-Plants archived messages, starting from 1997, visit www.hort.net/lists/medit-plants/.
If you would like to discuss a message found in the archives, it is helpful to copy/paste the pertinent lines into your current email along with the message’s date and sender information.
Please note that on older posts, contact information for subscribers found in the archive may also be out of date. The group is not able to provide current information for these subscribers though some can still be found via an Internet search.
Resources and Links
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