| QUICK START - What You
Need To Know To Start Using Our Gifting Service
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- Keep It Free, Legal, Appropriate For All Ages. Be nice no matter
what.
- This list is used for offering and asking for items as well as reading
what others are offering or asking for.
- Only tangible items are considered as gifts at PKF. No coupons. No
information. No services. No politics. No spam. No foul language. No
money. No trading. No borrowing. No Sob stories. No public service announcements.
No garage sale announcements. (list
of what you can't post)
- To reply to a post just hit reply. The list is set up so your reply
will go directly to the poster in private mail, not the entire list.
- The most important part of a post at PKF is the Subject
Line. We are crazy strict about Subject Lines at PKF so the list
reader can quickly scan them to see if they might be interested in a
post. Stick to our simple Subject Line protocol TOPIC:
SHORT DESCRITPION OF THE GIFT(S).
- We only allow 5 topics: Offer,
Want, Pending (or PPU), Taken, or Praise (or Thank You) followed by
a short description of the gift(s). Praise posts should mention the
gifter(s) in the subject line.
- There are two ways you can submit a post
1. From the web site using the post
link on the left side of the Yahoo
Groups PKF home page in the white box on the left of the page.
2. From your email client but you have to have your TO field set to
the list's address.
Portage-KalamazooFreecycle@yahoogroups.com
- No exact addresses on the public list but the approximate location
for the pick up is required in all offers. Phone numbers are allowed
but remember your post will go out to a large list of people.
- If you get responses to your post choose
the responder. There is no rule about who you choose. You may choose
by the order you receive them but there are fairer ways to choose such
as need, distance to drive for the PU or previous dealings with a responding
member. You need not write back personally to every responder, only
the one you choose. A pending post to the list takes care of the rest.
- The key to avoiding "No Shows" is good communication. I
recommend not agreeing to any PU without getting a phone number and
verifying it.
- Don't be so quick to delete responses and other mail you have with
members concerning any freecyle gifting. Create a separate email box
in your email client. Call it MyFreecycles. Put it all in there and
save it for at least a month. If a gifting falls through you then have
all the other interested members. Sometimes you need to get back with
someone or choose another responder. This file will make things easier
for you down the line.
- When making multiple offers, wants, pendings. takens or praises please
combine them into one post to cut down on the volume of email members
receive. (combining rule)
- If you need to send the moderators an email do not send it to the
list address rather the group owner address Portage-KalamazooFreecycle-owner@yahoogroups.com.
All important email addresses for our group are in the footer of all
list mail.
- PKF is about the gifting and nothing else. Do not
add anything to posts to the pubic list in the subject line, the body
of the post or in the signature which does not describe the gift or
the circumstances for the pickup. No business
web site URL's, political URL's, personal web sites or inspirational
quotes. You may include a URL to a picture somewhere on the web
that helps you describe the gift but do not use a URL to a sales page
for it. Rather use the URL for that picture only by right clicking on
the picture to find its properties which would reveal the URL to just
that picture. You can refer to photos you have uploaded into our photos
area and even give the URL to them in the same way.
- Posts for the same gifts are limited by a waiting
period. Asking for the same gift - 21 days. Offering the same gift
- 3 days.
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