Regular/"Loose" Mail Version ~ The lists' normal form is where a subscriber receives each post to the list. There are not many posts to the list anymore, sometimes we go over a month without a post.

Digest Version ~ The list also comes in a digest version. Each post to the list is automatically compiled into the next digest. When the compiling digest reaches at least 20K in size, the server sends out a copy of this digest to all of the subscribers to this version of the list. If it does not reach the 20K threshold by 1:00am the next morning, the digest is sent with whatever posts it has in it at that time. Here's a sample digest to read. This is from the days when the list was busy. :-)

News Only Version ~ Closed down in June of 2012. 

To subscribe and/or unsubscribe to one or both versions of the list, you should just send an email to the respective email Subscription address for that list (see chart below) and put ONLY the word subscribe or unsubscribe (depending on the action desired) into the BODY of the email, NOT the subject. If your email program requires a subject, you can put anything you want in it. If subscribing, a few minutes after sending the request email, you will get an email from confirm@smoe.org, along with an email from majordomo@smoe.org. You will HAVE TO reply to the one from confirm@smoe.org. Its' SUBJECT will be similar to one of the following, depending on the list you are going to subscribe to:

• Confirm subscribe jewel (CCDF955-3808CB5)
• Confirm subscribe jewel-digest (CCDF955-3808CB5)

The code/key number above (CCDF955-3808CB5) WILL be different in your case, and it will also appear in the body of the email from confirm@smoe.org. You HAVE TO reply to that email, and as long as the subject or body of your reply contains the code/key number, it will work. A few minutes later you should receive two more emails, a confirmation and one entitled "Welcome To Jewel", which is the same one you received when you first subscribed to a Jewel list.

Again, the email addresses to subscribe and/or unsubscribe to the two lists, plus the necessary commands, are as follows: