• The Waldorf Education List Home Page
  
  
• What is the Waldorf education e-mail discussion list?
  
  
• Who participates in the list?
  
  
• List guidelines and etiquette
  
  
• How to "subscribe" to the list so you can join the discussion
  
  
• How to "signoff" if you don't want to get any more e-mail from the list
  
  
• How to get messages from the list as a single daily "digest" with a subject index at the top
  
  
• How to temporarily stop getting mail from the list if you go on vacation
  
  
• How to access and search the list archives
  
  
• Contacting the list manager with questions or suggestions

What is the Waldorf List?

• Waldorf education is an international educational movement involving over 600 schools, both publicly and privately funded, plus many other teachers and parents who are inspired by the Waldorf schools. All Waldorf schools are governed entirely independent of one another; What unites them is a common regard for the educational philosophy of the original Waldorf school, which was founded in Germany in 1919 by the Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner. You can find out more about Waldorf education and the philosophy behind it (anthroposophy) from the Rudolf Steiner College pages at http://www.steinercollege.org/, at http://www.bobnancy.com/, and at http://www.waldorfworld.net

• E-mail, or electronic mail is the most common way for people to send messages to each other using computers connected to the international network-of-networks called the Internet. You will need an e-mail address where you can receive (and send) electronic mail if you want to participate in the Waldorf education e-mail discussion list. (You cannot participate through the World-Wide Web, even though that is part of the Internet, too.)

• An e-mail discussion list works like this: You first "subscribe" to the list (instructions for subscribing are here), which adds your e-mail address to our list of participants. Then you will start getting several messages a day from other subscribers. Any subscriber (including you) can type a message and send it to a special e-mail address called the "list address", and the computer at that address will automatically forward the message to every other subscriber (currently about 600 people). The effect is that all 600 of us can "hear" each other speak, as if we were all in the same room having a discussion. Obviously, if all 600 people said something even once a day, there would be far too much mail for anyone to read! Generally, you will want to just read other's messages most of the time, and respond with your own comments whenever you have something you'd like to contribute. Some people "post" more messages than others, but generally it all works out to about a dozen messages per day in your mailbox. (You can receive these all in one daily "digest" message if you prefer. See here .)