The Mailing List:
Bread-Bakers Digest

This web site is the result of years of enthusiastic participation by the thousands of subscribers to the Bread-Bakers Digest mailing list. We invite you to join us in sharing the joys of the art of bread baking. Subscription instructions are here.

The Bread-Bakers Digest is a moderated mailing list. Bread-Bakers is sent out once a week in digest format only. Digests are archived here. Recipes are extracted from the digests and are available for download here.

The rules for participation are simple:

• We ask that you include your sources when posting a recipe to the list. It is considered polite and ethical to post the author, publisher and any other pertinent info from a book that the recipe is taken from. Authors spend many hours creating and developing recipes for us to enjoy and a sale that developes as a result of a recipe sent in by someone and tried by another might help create a sale of another wonderful bread cookbook.
  
  
• Flaming is strictly forbidden both on-list and privately between subscribers. Violators are subject to being unsubscribed.
  
  
• Commercial use of the subscribers' names and/or addresses is strictly forbidden. As a service to our subscribers, we accept occasional announcements of equipment, products or books for sale, but trolling for clients in unsolicited private email to other subscribers is not permitted and will result in the offender being unsubscribed.
  
  
• We ask that you do not send html or quoted-printable encoded email to the lists. After encoded messages are incorporated into the digest they can no longer be decoded, making the message very difficult to read. For example, spaces become   in html or =20 in quoted-printable. It is not difficult to configure your email program to send plain text. Instructions are here.
  
  
• When posting recipes for more then one size please repeat the ingredient list for each size. The multiple column format often used in cookbooks can be very difficult to read in a digest format and is extremely difficult to enter into a recipe management program.

Subscription Instructions

The Bread-Bakers Digest mailing list is run automatically by Bestserv.
The commands and options are different from those of listserv, listproc or majordomo.

To change your address, send an unsubscribe message from the old address and send a subscribe message from the new address.

• Subscribe and Unsubscribe
• Posting
• Advanced Features
• General List Server Information

Subscribe and Unsubscribe

To join the bread-bakers mailing list, send mail to <bread-bakers-request@lists.bread-bakers.com>
In the body of the message, place, in lower case with no indentation, the single word:

subscribe

This will subscribe you at the address that your message is sent from. This is almost certainly your correct address. Bestserv will send you a message asking you to confirm your subscription request. You must reply to the message changing the word REJECT in the subject to ACCEPT. Be sure to leave the "ID=<...>" information in the subject line unchanged. You will get a confirmation when your subscription has been accepted. If you have problems subscribing, please write to us at <bread-bakers-owner@lists.bread-bakers.com> and we will assist you.

To unsubscribe from bread-bakers, send mail to <bread-bakers-request@lists.bread-bakers.com>
In the body of the message, place, in lower case with no indentation, the single word:

unsubscribe

Posting

To send a message to bread-bakers, send mail to <bread-bakers@lists.bread-bakers.com>
You must be subscribed to the list to post to the list.

Advanced Features

If you have multiple email addresses use the "alias" command to register your alternate addresses. You may post to bread-bakers from an alias address, but will not receive bread-bakers at this address.
To register an alias address for bread-bakers, send mail from the address to <bread-bakers-request@lists.bread-bakers.com>
In the body of the message, place, in lower case with no indentation, the single word:

alias

Bestserv will send you a message asking you to confirm your alias request. You must reply to the message changing the word REJECT in the subject to ACCEPT. Be sure to leave the "ID=<...>" information in the subject line unchanged. You will get a confirmation when your alias has been accepted.

General List Server Information

The subscriber list is not available to anyone.

There is no equivalent of the listproc "ACK" setting - you will get a copy of what you mail to the list.

There is no equivalent of the listproc "POSTPONE" setting - just unsubscribe before you go and resubscribe when you return.

To contact a human to help solve mailing list problems, email to <bread-bakers-owner@lists.bread-bakers.com>

In real life, we are Reggie & Jeff Dwork.

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