Since the Civilization and Culture group began, the e-mail discussion system has been the foundation of the group's operations. It provides an opportunity for all members to raise and discuss issues which may confront future Martian explorers.

Everyone is invited to join the mailing list and to participate in these discussions. Instructions for joining and for looking up archived messages are listed below.

To join the Civilization & Culture discussion group, send a message to: ............. Civ-Culture-Subscribe@lists.MarsSociety.org with "subscribe civ-culture" in the body of the message, without the quotation marks. There are also clickable links for this and other Mars Society discussion groups at http://MarsHome.org/e-lists .

To unsubscribe from the Civilization & Culture discussion group, send a message to Civ-Culture-UNsubscribe@lists.MarsSociety.org .

If you would like to change your address, follow the instructions below:

From your NEW e-mail address, send a message to:

Civ-Culture-Subscribe@lists.MarsSociety.org

From your OLD e-mail address, if possible, send a message to:

Civ-Culture-UNsubscribe@lists.MarsSociety.org

All of the messages from this mailing list are archived back to December 11, 1999. A web-based archive of these messages is being contructed in another section of the Civilization and Culture website, however you can request an index of the available archived messages from the mailing list system by sending a message to majordomo@chapters.marssociety.org with "index civ-culture" in the body of the message, without the quotation marks.

You will receive a directory listing which looks something like this:

>>>> index civ-culture

total 22

-rw-rw---- 1 majordom mars 3978 Nov 30 16:14 civ-culture.19991130

-rw-rw---- 1 majordom mars 7003 Dec 11 00:14 civ-culture.19991211

-rw-rw---- 1 majordom mars 7003 Dec 12 00:14 civ-culture.19991212

...and so on. The last part of each line is the filename, which is something like "civ-culture.19991211". The "19991211" stands for December 11, 1999. You can retrieve any day's archive file by sending an e-mail to lists.MarsSociety.org with the following command in the body of your email message:

where you replace the file name "19991211" with the name of the file you want.

These may be very large files, so make sure your ISP and mail client are prepared to receive them!