Greetings and welcome to Dairy-L. As a new subscriber to Dairy-L we, the
comoderators of Dairy-L would like you to know that Dairy-L may not
operate like other lists you may have subscribed to. We also get a lot of
people who are new to the Internet joining Dairy-L. This message contains
a _STRONG RECOMMENDATION_ to do a couple things to get familiar with
Dairy-L and the Listserv software.

First, messages sent to Dairy-L must be signed with your name, e-mail
address and general location (state or province in the US or Canada, and
country elsewhere). If messages are not signed, the moderators will not
distribute the messages, nor contact you. The responsibility rests on
_YOU_.

Dairy-L is a forum dedicated to providing factual information to its
subscribers with a minimum of speculation, grandstanding, and pushing of a
one sided agenda. All points of view are welcome, however, repeated
pressuring on a point and flaming are undersirable aspects of some lists
that we seek to minimize. This has resulted in the operation of a well
respected source of information for the global dairy community.

We suggest that you send an e-mail message according to the following
instructions. Please read and save the files. They contain important
instructions for Dairy-L. Also, please save the generic welcome message
from the listserv software. That contains important instructions for
using the listserv software commands.

Please send an e-mail message to:

listserv@listserv.umd.edu

Put the following lines in the body of the message:

GET ARCHIVE TXT
GET NETTIQ TXT
INDEX DAIRY-L

You will be sent 3 files in 3 separate  e-mail messages. The first file
describes how to search the archives of past Dairy-L messages. The second
file describes Dairy-L and emphasizes what is appropriate and what is
not. The third file provides you with a list of all files stored in
association with Dairy-L and it has a short description of each file. You
can get any of those files just like you are getting the first two files
above.

Finally, if you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact either of us
at our private e-mail addresses or phone numbers below. Welcome to
Dairy-L, and enjoy this valuable resource.

Warren Gilson
Univ. of Georgia
wgilson@arches.uga.edu


Teresa VanWagner                        Mark Varner
VanWagner Holsteins, FL                 Univ. of Maryland
vwdairy@atlantic.net                    varner@umd5.umd.edu
 


8/13/02