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1. The primary focus of this list: provide a forum to explore the ideas contained in the 40-plus books published by Seth/Jane Roberts, meet birds of a feather, share personal stories, and nurture a growing global community. Oh yes, and to have fun as we pursue our “value fulfillment” in the process!
However, membership in Sethnet is a privilege, not a right. By subscribing to Sethnet you agree to observe the following tenets intended to help focus the list, reduce clutter, improve readability, and eliminate flames:
- Please keep your posts relevant to the ideas expressed throughout the Seth/Jane Roberts's books.
- When posting any supporting material, please keep it relevant to the primary focus of this list.
- Refrain from personal attacks and abusive language = use constructive criticism (for example, criticize the logic, veracity, motives, ethics, or interpretation), not destructive criticism (for example, personally attack any individual, their writing style/spelling, use scat invective, post private emails without permission, etc.)
- Please trim off unnecessary text and tag lines before sending a reply. It makes posts easier to read and reduces clutter.
- Use the subject line to indicate the actual content of your post. Ensure that your REPLY relates to the subject header in the original post, or else CHANGE the subject header to reflect a new direction.
- It’s OK to post information on any commercial product or service as long as it has something to do with the work of Seth/Jane Roberts. (For example, a book, tape, CD, seminar, etc.)
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· How to receive Individual emails, Digests (of up to 25 messages in a single email), or temporarily not receive email.
a. Type: http://groups.yahoo.com into your web browser’s address line, press the Enter key. This takes you to the Yahoo! Groups home page.
b. Find the “Sign In” box on the left side. Enter your email address and your password (tip: you may wish to select the “Remember my ID & password” box. This way you don’t have to log on again and can just go directly to step d.).
c. Next, use your mouse to click on the “Sign in!” button. This will now log you onto the Yahoo! Groups web site. A new page will come up. You will see “My Groups” in the mid-left margin area and Sethnet should be one of the groups listed.
d. Click on “Sethnet”, this takes you to another page:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sethnet
Tip: you may wish to add this page to your Bookmarks or Favorite Places.
e. Click on the words “Edit My Membership” on the upper right side of the page.
f. You will get a new page - you may have to enter your password (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sethnet/join?referer=1). Under “Message Delivery” you will see four choices:
· Individual Emails
· Daily Digest
· Only Special Announcements
· No Email
g. Finally, click on a choice from above and then BE SURE TO CLICK the “Save Changes” button at the bottom of the page.
Ta Da! You’re finished.
· How to use the Sethnet email list’s web pages.
a. Type in the following web address into your browser:
http://www.cafemuse.com/sethnet/
b. Press your ENTER key. You will get: Welcome to the Sethnet Email List Home Page!
· How do I send an email to the list? Send an email to:
sethnet@yahoogroups.com
· How do I subscribe to the list by email? Send an email to:
sethnet-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
· How do I UNsubscribe to the list by email? Send an email to:
sethnet-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
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3. List Administrator: Paul Helfrich in Castaic, CA, USA <helfrich@cafemuse.com>. Feel free to privately email me anytime for assistance.
4. Helpful participation hints:
· If you are not sure about participating in this email list, the best way to learn about it is to sign up and “lurk.” You can then follow the postings without actively participating. You will gain a feel for the appropriate kinds of postings and people involved before you decide to participate.· If you are new to this list, on your first post please introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about how you came to be interested in Seth/Jane Roberts. If you have a personal web page include your web address (that http://www.yada.yada… thing).
· If you reply to a message, please edit/delete any unnecessary tag/signature lines or egroups commercials at the bottom of the post. This helps to keep messages smaller and increases the likelihood that someone will read all of your post.
· If you write a long post, you might put [long] in the subject line so people know it’s a long one.
· Sanity Saver tip #1: list traffic fluctuates between 25 – 125 messages (1 – 5 Digests) per day. So repeat after me, “I don’t have to read every message every day.” Trust that you will be attracted to messages that will help you notice and deal with your own issues/beliefs and let the rest go. You can always find what you “missed” in the archives later.
· Sanity Saver tip #2: if list traffic is too heavy for your tastes, you can change from single messages to Digests (1 – 5 emails per day). If the list is too much, instead of unsubscribing, you can just change your egroups account to No Mail (see item #3 Useful Features for how to do this). This way you won’t need to resubscribe to the Sethnet list, but just change back (uncheck) the No Mail setting.
· Sometimes people use abbreviations to save space. Some of the common ones are:
LOL
=
Laughing Out Loud
ROFL
=
Rolling On The Floor
ROFLMAO
=
Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off
IMO
=
In My Opinion
IMHO
=
In My Humble Opinion
IOW
=
In Other Words
MVGF
=
My Very Good Friend
VBG
=
Very Big Grin
NIMR
=
Not In My Reality
BTW
=
By The Way
FWIW
=
For What Its Worth
TSM
=
The Seth Material
DAS
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Dream Art Science (see The "Unknown" Reality, Vol I & II)
NOPR or NPR
=
Nature of Personal Reality
SS
=
Seth Speaks
CWS
=
Conversations with Seth (by Sue Watkins)
DEVF
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Dreams, "Evolutions," & Value Fulfillment
YCYOR
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You create your own reality
ICMOR
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I create my own reality
· Sometimes people use “emoticons” to convey a feeling tone. Some of the most common are:
<g>
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“little” grin
<G>
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“big” grin
:-)
=
“smile”
;-)
=
“winking one eye”
· Netiquette, or Net etiquette, is the “root assumptions” of common courtesy that have “evolved” during the past ten years for people who use the Internet. Some conventions:
- WRITING IN ALL CAPS IS EQUIVALENT TO SHOUTING!!!· For more information on Netiquette visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiquette- Writing in lower case is considered a regular conversational tone.
- Sometimes you may wish to reply to someone privately instead of the entire list.
- Sometimes you may wish to include only the portion of the email that you are responding to, as this reduces clutter.
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5. How to search the archives:
a. Type: http://groups.yahoo.com into your web browser’s address line, press the Enter key. This takes you to the Yahoo! Groups home page.
b. Find the “Sign In” box on the left side. Enter your email address and your password (tip: you may wish to select the “Remember my ID & password” box. This way you don’t have to log on again and can just go directly to step d.).
c. Next, use your mouse to click on the “Sign in!” button. This will now log you onto the Yahoo! Groups web site. A new page will come up. You will see “My Groups” in the middle left spine area. You will also see “My Groups” in a grayish horizontal bar.
d. Click on the word “Sethnet” listed in the middle left of the webpage. This takes you to the Sethnet Yahoo! Groups page. You can also bookmark or add this page to your favorite places.
e. You’ll see the Search box in the lower middle of this page, along with a button with the words “Search Archives”.
f. Type in your search term(s)
g. Click on “Search Archives” or press the ENTER key.
h. A new webpage will come up and you’ll see the number of hits, something like: Searched Messages 34126-33168 of 34126. You over 20 results pages at a time. Just click your mouse on “| Previous | Next |” to access the next set of hits. Or try another search.
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6. How to post your own pictures to the files area:
a. To access the files area you have to be logged onto Yahoo! Groups. Once logged on go to:
http://www.cafemuse.com/sethnet/
b. In the upper middle you’ll see blue text: [ Create Folder ]
c. Click on it, then type in a name and description. Then click on the “Create Folder” button and voila, you’ve created a folder.
d. Next, just click on the folder so that you open it. Now just click on the upper middle left “Add File” and find the directory on YOUR computer where you’re storing the image using the “Browse” button.
e. Once you select your file, it will use a .jpg or .gif extension, click on the “Upload File” button.
Ta Da! You’ve transferred the file there and it will come up as a webpage when you click on it.
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7. How to add your personal info in the Contact List:
a. To access the Contact List area you have to be logged onto Yahoo! Groups (see 6.a.-c. above). Once logged on go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sethnet/database?method=reportRows&tbl=2
b. In the upper left you’ll see blue text: [ Add Record ]
c. Click on it, and a form with load. Fill out the form and be sure to click on “Save Record.” Now people can contact each other offlist for particulars (like address, phone number).
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8. How can I change from an old to a new email address on Yahoo! Groups?
a. go to Sethnet main page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sethnet
b. Click on Account Info, in upper right corner. (you may get a new page and be asked to renter your password. Do that and click on “continue.”)
c. You will get a new page. In the “Member Information” bar, click on the little “Edit” icon.
d. You will get a new page. Under “Email Information” you will see a place to add another email address. To replace and old one, just type over it in the “Alternate 1” box. Then, be sure to click on “Finished” at the bottom of the page to implement any changes.
e. You will get a new page. Review your changes once more, and click on “Finished” in the upper right corner.
f. Ta Da! Fini.
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9. How do I delete my Yahoo! account?
Sometimes people have more than one email account and they get too much to manage. Sometimes people just want to start over and get a clean account to reduce unsolicited emails. Go to the following webpages for more info: