Viticulture Assn: Welcome to Buy/Sell Exchange

[Mary Lindsay]

  Hi, this is Mary Lindsay, program manager for the Viticulture 
Association of the Santa Cruz Mountains.  You will shortly receive an 
automated email with the Subject, "Welcome to the 'VASCM' Mailing List" 
sent from vascm-request at kkn.net.  

This is the 'Buy/Sell Exchange' that we've talked about to connect 
growers and winemakers for the purpose of buying and selling grapes. You 
are on this list either as a local winemaker or grower, or both.  We ask 
that you give it a chance for awhile to see how it might work for you.

We have created this email 'Exchange' system as an easy and efficient 
mechanism to directly connect winemakers and growers for the purpose of 
buying and selling Santa Cruz Mt. appellation grapes.  A winemaker can 
send a message to the list saying, for example, "I'm looking for 
Chardonnay," and a grower can respond saying, "I have some available." 
 Or a grower can send a message saying, "I have Pinot available this 
year", and an interested winemaker can respond asking for more information.

This is a simple email list, so it's easy to use.  To send a message to 
this list, all you have to do is send it to vascm at kkn.net, and everyone 
on the list will receive it.     We'll explain more on how to use this 
list below.  

We have set this up as a service to the local winemaking and viticulture 
community, and hope you find it of value.

- The Viticulture Association of the Santa Cruz Mountains
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HOW TO USE THIS LIST:

When you have a message to send to the list:  Address your message to 
VASCM at kkn.net .  Your message will automatically be sent to everyone on 
the list.  Your name will be listed as the Sender, just as it normally 
would.

When you want to reply to a specific sender of a particular message: 
 Reply as you would normally by using the "Reply" key.  

When you want to reply to everyone on the list:  Reply to the message by 
using the "Reply All" key.  When you use "Reply All" your message will 
go to everyone on the list.

When you want to send a message to the mailman (the list master):   Send 
a message to VASCM-owner at kkn.net .

You can also access the list archives of message postings from the list 
page at http://kkn.net/mailman/listinfo/vascm .