Ren Allen

Hi all,

I created this group rather quickly, so forgive me for doing this a
bit out of order. This email will automatically go to new members
from here on, but I wanted to post it for those of you that already
joined before I got organized.:) Thanks for bearing with me on this.

Dear new member,

Welcome to the unschoolingbasics list. We look forward to sharing
information and ideas with you, but first, we ask you to look over
our posting and list guidelines:

1) No discussions will be allowed about posts. This is called
a "meta-discussion" (discussing the discussion) and posts analyzing
another person's message or posting style will be deleted. If there
is something about a post that bothers you, stick to discussing the
ideas presented, rather than the post itself.

2) Please only post issues/topics that you are open to discussing.
If it's in your message, it's open to discussion.

3) Try to change the subject line if the topic changes. This will
help us all access archives and utilize the discussions more
effectively. Also, trim your posts to avoid a message that takes up
too much room. It's difficult to read through them.

4) All new members will be moderated in order to prevent spam from
reaching the list. Once you post an intro. or question, we will
remove you from moderation.

Also, if you visit the actual site, we are adding information and
resources under the "links" section. Book recommendations, blogs and
websites will be linked for you to access.

Feel free to upload pictures of yourself and family at the "photos"
section if you wish. Sometimes it's nice to have a visual of the
folks we talk with daily.

One last thing:
If you have questions, problems, comments or compliments (yeah, we
love those:), please feel free to write the list owners~ Kelly
Lovejoy or Ren Allen, or the moderators~ Rue Kream or Deb Lewis. If
you send an email to "list owners" we will all receive it.

So welcome! Let's get talking....

Ren and Kelly