General Info

Welcome! STORYTELL, sponsored by the School of Library and Information Studies at Texas Woman's University in Denton, Texas is a forum for discussion about storytelling. All persons interested in storytelling are invited to participate: professional storytellers, amateur storytellers, people concerned with the rich history of storytelling, people who enjoy listening to stories, and those who speculate about the place of storytelling in the 21st century. The list reflects viewpoints from around the world of issues and topics concerning the storytelling community. STORYTELL serves as a source of information on conferences, workshops and events as well as a place to ask (and answer) questions about the origins and variations of stories, the business of storytelling, or organization of storytelling events.

STORYTELL has more than 500 subscribers worldwide, so subscribers receive a lot of mail, as many as 40-80 e-mail messages every day! Read your e-mail frequently. Set the option to receive STORYTELL in digest form to receive STORYTELL messages just once a day. To temporarily stop mail delivery, set the no-mail function. Remember: STORYTELL is a prolific list. A full e-mail mailbox cannot receive any e-mail from anyone and error messages are sent to other people sending you mail. STORYTELL's software is programmed to automatically remove subscribers from the discussion list whose mailboxes are filled to capacity.

All administrative requests to Storytell, including to subscribe to and to unsubscribe from Storytell, and to receive a list of commands, are sent To:  majordomo@lists.twu.edu

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To subscribe yourself to STORYTELL:
To:  majordomo@lists.twu.edu
Subject:<leave blank or, if your mail program insists, insert the same message as in the message box>
<in the body of message, type the line below>
subscribe storytell email_address
end <send message>

Note: You must subscribe with the same email address you wish to receive STORYTELL messages.

To unsubscribe/remove yourself from STORYTELL:
To:  majordomo@lists.twu.edu  
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<in the body of message, type the line below>
unsubscribe storytell email address
end <send message>

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To receive a summarized list of available STORYTELL archive files, send an e-mail message:
To:  majordomo@lists.twu.edu
Subject:<leave blank or, if your mail program insists, insert the same message as in the message box>
<in the body of message, type the line below >
archive-summary STORYTELL
end <send message >

To receive an indexed list of a STORYTELL archive file, send an e-mail message:
To:  majordomo@lists.twu.edu
Subject:<leave blank or, if your mail program insists, insert the same message as in the message box>
<in the body of message, type the line below >
archive-index STORYTELL
end <send message >

To retrieve individual archived messages in a STORYTELL archive file, send an e-mail message:
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Subject:<leave blank or, if your mail program insists, insert the same message as in the message box>
<in the body of message, type the line below >
archive-get STORYTELL yyyymmdd/#
end <send message >

Note: yyyymmdd is the archive file name and # is the number of a particular message inside the archive file.

To retrieve archived messages in a digest format, send an e-mail message:
To:  majordomo@lists.twu.edu
Subject:<leave blank or, if your mail program insists, insert the same message as in the message box>
<in the body of message, type the line below >
archive-get-digest STORYTELL yyyymmdd
end <send message >

Note: yyyymmdd is the archive file name and # is the number of a particular message inside the archive file.

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NoMail: To stop receipt of STORYTELL e-mail messages but still remain subscribed to STORYTELL:
To:  majordomo@lists.twu.edu
Subject:<leave blank or, if your mail program insists, insert the same message as in the message box>
<in the body of message, type the line below>
set storytell nomail
end <send message>

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To re-start receipt of STORYTELL e-mail messages:
To:  majordomo@lists.twu.edu
Subject:<leave blank or, if your mail program insists, insert the same message as in the message box>
<in the body of message, type the line below>
set storytell mail OR set storytell nomail-return
end <send message>

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Digests: To receive digests of STORYTELL messages once a day rather than receive each message when posted
To:  majordomo@lists.twu.edu
Subject:<leave blank or, if your mail program insists, insert the same message as in the message box>
<in the body of message, type the line below >
set storytell digest
end <send message>

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To re-start receipt of each STORYTELL message when posted rather than receiving messages once-a-day in digest format:
To:  majordomo@lists.twu.edu
Subject:<leave blank or, if your mail program insists, insert the same message as in the message box>
<in the body of message, type the line below>
set storytell each
end <send message>

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To stop receipt of copies of your own postings to STORYTELL:
To:  majordomo@lists.twu.edu
Subject:<leave blank or, if your mail program insists, insert the same message as in the message box>
<in the body of message, type the line below >
set storytell noselfcopy <send message>

To re-start receipt of copies of your own postings to STORYTELL:
To:  majordomo@lists.twu.edu
Subject:<leave blank or, if your mail program insists, insert the same message as in the message box>
<in the body of message, type the line below >
set storytell selfcopy
end <send message>

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For personal assistance, contact:

Technology Assistance Group
School of Library and Information Studies
Texas Woman's University
Denton, Texas
E-Mail: storytell-owner@lists.twu.edu
Storytell Home Page: http://www.twu.edu/cope/slis/storytell.htm

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