Welcome!

JerseyConnect (provided by YahooGroups http://groups.yahoo.com) is intended to be a convenient way for islanders to keep in touch, and discuss the state of "the rock". The beauty of mailing lists is that hopefully every day when you log in you'll receive a shed-load of useful information, interesting discussion, witty banter etc.

Optionally, you can just receive every posted message as and when it's received, rather than wait until the digest's sent the next day.

Who's JerseyConnect for?

How's it going?

And if and when you're ever overwhelmed by emails, please remember you can set your account to deliver just ONE DIGEST per day instead, or even turn off the mailings and access JerseyConnect over the Web when it's convenient for you. You can choose, you have control. Thanks in advance for your support.

What are the rules?

Overall, the idea is to compliment the JEP, providing those of us who are interested in the island with a service to keep us all informed. Almost like a newspaper of sorts, delivered via e-mail, and written BY the people FOR the people.

You may feel that discussing local politics on JerseyConnect would be pointless - but you might find that the more switched-on politicians and activists join in too. We'll see! We may even be able to compile a list of email addresses for direct contact with relevant parties, so that you can make your point.

While JerseyConnect could technically be used for classified ads, I must lay down the law now to ban such use. Such postings will be deleted, with the user who posted the item being warned and then removed from the group upon any similar offence. Sorry - but other sites are better places for all that.

The one exception I'll allow, as far as classifieds go, is personal introductions. You see, I've every sympathy for those who find meeting like-minded souls a touch difficult. On JerseyConnect you'll be quite welcome to "advertise" yourself. I take NO RESPONSIBILTY AT ALL for anything that may happen, it's ALL UP TO YOU. I would strongly advise subscribing to JerseyConnect with an anonymous e-mail account (such as those offered by Hotmail, AltaVista etc). This would be like having a Box Number at the local paper. If you attempt a blind date, the usual precautions should be taken, meet in a public place etc. Hopefully, any "introductions" that may happen will be less "forced" in nature, having attracted friendship via your witty writing on various subjects.

The obvious limitations apply, no slander/libel, no bad language, nothing illegal etc! I'll do my best to keep an eye on bad postings, to remove them hopefully in time to keep them out of any digests. I cannot, however, monitor full-time - I'm at the office to work! So if you've set your account for messages as they arrive (rather than digests) please be aware of this limitation. I will also not tolerate abusive flame wars.

Example posting suggestions

Why a mailing list?

How do I subscribe to JerseyConnect?

or alternatively :

click to subscribe to jerseyconnect

You will then receive an email asking you to confirm your intention to join. The mail will explain what you'll need to do - you can reply to the mail OR visit a special web-address - the URL contains your details.

How do I make a posting?

The web interface...

Help for YahooGroups : Please consult their assistance pages at http://help.yahoo.com/help/groups

(the list started on eGroups, moved to ONElist, and then the two services merged together and used the eGroups name! Then Yahoo took over, as they did with GeoCities)

If you joined via eGroups, you may continue to contibute, join or leave via email - the @egroups has changed to @yahoogroups but both still work.

If you don't wish to use the web-site for JerseyConnect access you can do nothing and you'll still receive JerseyConnect via email.

Otherwise, to use the website you'll now need a Yahoo login I.D. - previously you'd sign in with your email address and password. These old I.D.s need to be 'converted' to new Yahoo I.D.s! You may already have a Yahoo or Geocities I.D., which makes things slightly easier, but in any case the steps required are not difficult.

The easiest way to convert I.D.s is with an existing Yahoo I.D., or go to www.yahoo.com and create a new account FIRST. You can select a user name, password etc which will give you access to the old eGroups, Yahoo Clubs (discussion forums), Geocities free web-space, and more. Go to http://login.yahoo.com and follow 'Sign me up!' to get an account.

Once you have a Yahoo I.D., it will be easier to convert your old eGroups login, as you'll already have a new I.D. to enter during the simple conversion process. From the groups.yahoo site (top of this page) follow the 'sign in' link and the signing-in page will have a 'Click here to convert' link.

JerseyConnect - the Management

Argh! Leave me alone!

Patience!

JerseyConnect - Great!

I don't know what to expect, to be honest. If the usual Jersey apathy applies, then this'll crash and burn I suppose. So it's a bit of an experiment really. There is no hidden agenda. I don't personally need any "introductions" of the romantic kind! I want the "service" that JerseyConnect will provide if it's successful - if a better one comes along and steals the limelight that's fine by me!

I do think it would be nice to have a friendly on-line community of interesting islanders though, sharing news and opinions. Also, there are events in Jersey which never make it into the paper, or are only mentioned at the last minute. I've no time to catch TV/radio-based "What's On" spots, I don't even know what time they happen.
Maybe JerseyConnect will take off, maybe it won't... maybe we'll even extend our circle of friends... who knows? To the future! *clink* *glug*

Names that didn't make it...

Why are FREE third party services used?

In an ideal world JerseyConnect would have it's own web domain - if any local business would like to sponsor such a thing (if this ever becomes a success) please call me to discuss.

Design a logo! Win nothing!

Logo supplied by Andy Leighton

To get in touch

Legal issues

The line "The list owner(s) are not liable for any content in this post" is added to each posting that comes from YahooGroups ... that says it all, I hope.

I'll make an effort to remove postings that flout my rules (or try and find someone else to take the job) from the Web site (and therefore from digests if I'm in time), but that's where I draw the line of responsibility. By accepting emails directly as they are posted from other members you accept that I cannot intervene at that early stage. That's about it.

Spread the word

Have fun...

Hello,

I was wondering if, as a Jersey resident, you
may be interested in a recently started
mailing list for Jersey people. JerseyConnect
(FREE and non-commercial) is for islanders
(and other interested parties) to allow
discussion of local issues and general Jersey-
based chat, Q&A, news etc.

There is a home page at 
http://www.geocities.com/jerseyconnect
for further information.

Many apologies if you regard this message as
"spam", however this is intended to be a
friendly personal invitation even though we
may never have met - and that this is quite
unlike Unsolicited Commericial Email which
is the most often complained about abuse of
the email system.

Furthermore I can assure you that I will not
send email to this address again, but would
very much like to welcome you to JerseyConnect,
please do join and tell as many of your
contacts as you can - together we could make
the Jersey internet experience even more
rewarding.

As explained on the homepage, it is very early
days yet for this mailing list, and we really
need more than the existing handful of members
to get the ball rolling. I hope that you can
see the potential that JerseyConnect has to
unite the community.

Many thanks,
JerseyConnect

Hi,

You can only send invitations to friends,
family and/or with the members consent.
Thanks for using ONElist!