HOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIST EMAIL OPTIONS TO RECEIVE LESS EMAIL

I receive at least two or three unsubs from this group daily from
people who say that they like the group, but are receiving too many
email messages. I'd like to remind everyone who many not be familiar
with the way yahoogroups work that the number of email messages you
receive is entirely up to you.

When you join the group by email, you are automatically set to
receive every message posted to the list as an individual email
message. As the group is now the fifth largest yahoogroups Reiki
group, with over 650 members (and growing daily), that can lead to a
large number of emails coming to you every day. You can stop this
from happening in several ways, and still have access to all of the
messages any time you want to search through them, along with the
Calendar, Teachers Database, and Links directory.

First, at the bottom of every messsage sent out by this group is a
signature block that contains full information on resetting your
email preferences by simply sending one email to the yahoo list
manager. Here is how it works:

If you want to receive only a single email message per day
containing a "digest" of all of the messages posted to the list
that day, send a blank email message to this address:

ReikiWorkshops-digest@yahoogroups.com

(On some days when a lot of things are posted to the list, or
as we continue to grow, you might receive two email digests per
day. Each digest contains a maximum of twenty or so messages.)

If you are on digest setting, *please* remember to set your email
program so that it does *not* quote the message you are replying to.
Otherwise, you will copy the entire digest -- all twenty odd messages
-- back to the list with your reply. If that happens, the message
will be sent back to you with the request that you edit out the extra
material. (You might also want to copy the message subject line of
the message you are replying to into your subject line, and add "Re:"
at the beginning. Otherwise, your subject will read something like
"Re: [ReikiWorkshops] Digest No. 15" which is not very informative
and may not get noticed by the person you are writing to.

If you would like to receive no email at all from the group, but
still be able to view the ReikiWorkshops Calendar, the Teachers
Database, the Links directory and search messages posted to the list
for events close to you or workshops on a particular subject or by a
particular teacher -- things that are only available to group members
-- then you can change your email setting to "No Email."

"No Email" means exactly what it says. You will receive no email
messages at all from the group, but will still be able to view
everything you wish to see through the group homepage at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/reikiworkshops To set yourself to "No
Email," send a blank email message to:

ReikiWorkshops-nomail@yahoogroups.com

As a group member, you can still see all of the messages posted, and
reply to any of them via the website by clicking "Post" while you
have a message up in your browser.

If you ever decide that you prefer receiving all messages as
individual emails, you can re-set yourself to that setting by sending
a blank email to:

ReikiWorkshops-normal@yahoogroups.com

This information on how to reset your email settings is permanently
linked on the ReikiWorkshops home page just above where the most
recent group messages start to be displayed. You can also reset your
group preferences via a web form that is linked on the home page at
the top of the page at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/reikiworkshops

Look at the purple bar that has the group title "Reiki Workshops and
Classes." At the right side of that bar, there is a link called
"Edit My Membership." Clicking on that link will take you to a web
form that allows you to reset your email preferences, among other
things.

If anyone has any questions about this, or needs any help in setting
their group membership the way that is most convenient for them,
please email me directly at reikiworkshops@... and I will be
glad to help you.

Thank you for being a part of this growing Reiki community, and
blessings to all of you.

Jeff
ReikiWorkshops Group Owner