Textile Society of America Listserve

One of our member services is an email listserve for TSA members which is also open to non-members. The intention behind the listserve is to provide an easy venue for ongoing conversation between the members of TSA. The list is a place to engage in conversations about research areas and to share information about particular textiles, techniques, people and regions throughout the world. It is a place to announce publications and exhibitions and to share research in progress.

How it works

Email Listserves are groupings of members in a conference call-like manner. If you send an email to the listserve, all of the members receive it at the same time. Those members are free to simply read the strings of emails and to respond to any emails that are of interest. If you respond to an email you receive through the list, everyone on the list is included in your conversation. If you choose to answer the individual sender only, you can copy their address from the email and take the conversation "off list".

As of now there is no digest version of the listserve and no provision for temporary suspensions. However, it is quite simple to subscribe and unsubscribe. I encourage all of you to join.

To subscribe:

• Address an email to: majordomo@siue.edu
• Put nothing in the subject line
• In the body of the message write: subscribe tsalist your email address
• for instance: subscribe tsalist lstrand@siue.edu

This is a command sent to a software program called majordomo, not a conversation with another person. Add no punctuation and no other writing whatsoever. Within the day you will receive an introductory letter detailing list policies, including how to unsubscribe and you will begin receiving email.

The TSA listserve is set up through Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville and is administered by Laura Strand, Assistant Professor of Art/Textiles. If you have any problem subscribing, unsubscribing or with the list itself please contact me at lstrand@siue.edu.