The Eceilidh FAQ and Reminders


 Part 1: Joining the list and other technical issues
 Part 2: FAQ about EC culture, etc.
 

Part 1: Joining the list and other technical issues

To stop getting eceilidh messages, send any mail to eceilidh-leave@netservs.com. You must do this from the address that eceilidh has for you

To talk in eceilidh, send to eceilidh@netservs.com. You must do this from the address that eceilidh has for you.

 If you want to know the address eceilidh has for you, look at the X-ListMember header in any of the list messages.

Anyone may join eceilidh by sending blank mail to

eceilidh-join@netservs.com.

FAQ: Eceilidh is rejecting my posts but I'm still receiving other people's. Why?

You are registered on eceilidh under one address and are now sending on another. Your old address still works for receiving. EG: You registered as lists@fredsplace.freeserve.co.uk (and that's where your copy of eceilidh gets delivered) but you've started sending as fred@fredsplace.freeserve.co.uk.

Fix: Either correct your email software or change you address as known to eceilidh. See below.

FAQ: I'm changing my email address. How do I fix that with eceilidh?

 Easy Method

 Another way If you start getting two copies of everything

Send mail to list@netservs.com and in the body not the subject put:

leave eceilidh me@old.address

If you still have problems, look at the X-ListMember header in any of the list messages because when you ask for help I will need to know it.

 Reminder: Look at the X-ListMember header. It probably answers your question!

If you haven't bothered to look at the X-ListMember header, don't expect me to bother to help you
 

Part 2: FAQ about EC culture, etc.

2.1 What is the "EC is (Un)Friendly" Argument?

This is a discussion that comes up on ECeilidh every few months. Some people claim that cliques and "EC experts" are being nasty to newcomers. Other people claim that EC is just about the friendliest and most accessible social dance form in the UK. The main points of the argument are as follows:

The "Unfriendly" Argument

(To be filled in when someone sends me some suitable text)
 

The "Friendly" Argument

You know nothing about dance but you go to the Saturday night dance at a major festival with a top band playing. There is someone describing each dance before it starts and getting everybody to walk it through. If you have difficulty, it's quite likely that people around you will offer friendly assistance. You, Sir or Madam, are at an English Ceilidh.

If the description above doesn't sound friendly enough, you should on no account try a Fest Noz., a Cajun Bal, a Salsa, a Scandi or any other fine social dance event. Show up at one of those on a Saturday night and expect instruction and tolerance and you will be disappointed. To do those, you are expected to attend a few "workshops" first. Despite this appaling, elitist attitude, most of these dance forms flourish.
 

2.2 Should I be insured?

See  here