[Last updated on: Fri Aug 31 13:29:42 2001]
Precious-things is a mailing list for fans of Tori Amos to meet, share
news, discuss Tori's music, decipher lyrics, analyze song meanings and
so forth.

Precious-things is different from other Tori Amos mailing lists and
newsgroups in that it is moderated -- that is, all posts have to be
approved by the moderator before they are sent out to the rest of the
list.  Moderation is not a form of censorship. Its purpose is to create
a low volume, focused mailing list with no idle chatter, flamewars or
other distractions. All Tori-related posts, provided they contribute to
the discussion and do not attack other subscribers, will be approved.
Moderation is simply used as a tool to keep the focus of the list tight
and the amount of traffic manageable.

If you're more interested in a free-wheeling, anything-goes type of
discussion forum, then precious-things probably isn't for you. If,
however, you want a place to discuss Tori and her work and are not
interested in the topic drift on really-deep-thoughts-right-now,
rec.music.tori-amos, or the dent forums and or torinews or tori-boot
are too narrowly focused for you, then precious-things may be the
mailing list that you are looking for.

In addition to the regular list, precious-things is also available as a
digest. If you subscribe to the regular list, you will receive each
post as an individual mail message. If you subscribe to the digest, you
will receive one (or sometimes more if the list traffic is very heavy)
message per day which collects all the day's messages. If you receive a
lot of mail or have a limit on the number of messages you can receive,
you may wish to consider the digest over the regular list. You can
subscribe to both if you want to, but that's usually not necessary. ;)

Precious-things is available as a regular list (where each post to the
list will arrive in your mailbox as a separate message) and a digest
(where you will receive a single daily message which contains all of
the day's posts in one).

To subscribe to the regular list, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org
which says

          subscribe precious-things

If you would prefer the digest, the command is slightly different:

          subscribe precious-things-digest

Once majordomo receives your command, it will send you back a request
for confirmation. Confirmation is a security feature which prevents
malicious people from forging mailing list subscriptions for other
people (you may think this doesn't happen often, but you'd be
surprised!)

To confirm your subscription, simply reply to the confirmation request,
including the confirmation key in your reply. This key is the string of
numbers and letters in the confirmation request you received from
majordomo. You can type the key or cut and paste it into your reply,
but the simplest way is to quote the entire text of the request in your
reply (many mail programs do this automatically).

The key should be sent to confirm@smoe.org. Your reply should be
automatically addressed to the correct address, but please check to
make sure.

If you have any questions about precious-things, please contact the
listowners  -- Mike Curry and woj -- at owner-precious-things@smoe.org.