In My Account > Profile Editor, check “Yes” next to “Subscribe to the EFA Discussion List” to indicate that you’d like to join.

Look for an email from Yahoo! Groups Invitation within three business days, click the Join link in that email, and follow the screens to set up your account within the Editorial Freelancers Yahoo! Group. If your invitation does not arrive, check your spam or junk folder and consider whitelisting the EFA’s address. If you still don’t find your invitiation, email office@the-efa.org.

Send an email to EditorialFreelancers@yahoogroups.com or post messages from the EFA homepage on Yahoo! Groups at http://tinyurl.com/lh8zza3.

Log in at https://groups.yahoo.com/neo with your Yahoo! username and password. These are not the same as your EFA username and password. In the left sidebar on the Yahoo! Groups page, choose the EditorialFreelancers group. Go to Membership>Edit Membership on the right.  Too Many Posts? Choose the Daily Digest or Web Only option.

You can temporarily suspend yourself from the list (while you’re on vacation, for example):

• Send an email to discussionlist@the-efa.org.
• Change your delivery method to Web Only (described above).To get back on the list, send an email to discussionlist@the-efa.org.
• Change the message delivery option back to Individual Email or Daily Digest at http://tinyurl.com/lh8zza3.

Send a message to discussionlist@the-efa.org that includes both your old and new email addresses, your full name, and your EFA member ID. You can be subscribed under only one address at a time. The address must be in your EFA Member Profile.

In My Account > Profile Editor, check “No” next to “Subscribe to the EFA Discussion List.” Your account in the Yahoo Group will be closed within three business days.

Send a message directly to the list managers at discussionlist@the-efa.org.

BIZ: All aspects of business except marketing.
MKTG: Soliciting work from clients.
TOOLS: Tools of the trade: office equipment, software and hardware, reference works, and the like.
USAGE: Usage, style, and grammar.
CHAT: For discussions not directly related to editing, writing, or doing business in publishing. CHAT can be and often is on any topic, but please try to keep the messages related to freelancing, however distantly.

In addition, for urgent queries, any of the above tags can be used in combination with:

URGENT

If your post doesn’t fit a particular tag, or if you’re uncertain about which tag to use, please use your best judgment and don’t worry about it. The tag system is a courtesy to your fellow freelancers, not iron-clad law.

To search the archives of the EFA Discussion List, you must access the List’s Yahoo page from a web browser. Navigate to the main Discussion List site at http://tinyurl.com/lh8zza3. Once there, make sure that you are signed in to your Yahoo! account by clicking on the “Sign In” button in the upper right (if you do not recall your password, you may request it to be reset on the sign-in page).

Once signed in, you will be redirected to the EFA Discussion List home page. You may now search the archives simply by entering key words in the search box labeled “Search Conversations” at the top of the page. Conversations containing your search term(s) will appear below. As you continue to scroll down, they will continue to load.

Please be POLITE AND PROFESSIONAL: Personal attacks, abusive language, and flaming will not be tolerated. Don’t spam. Offenders will be banned immediately and permanently without appeal.

Please do not correct the grammar, spelling, or syntax of messages posted by your fellow freelancers on the list. This is a discussion forum and the focus should remain on the ideas expressed.

The Discussion List and its archives are open to members only, but bear in mind that messages can be forwarded to anyone. No internet message is truly private; be circumspect, especially when discussing clients.

When replying to a post, please quote only the relevant material and snip the headers and footers. If you are on digest, please be especially careful not to send an entire digest back to the list—please do not just hit your reply key.

As editors and writers we need to be particularly vigilant regarding copyright violations. Do not post copyrighted material beyond accepted fair use. If you wish to bring something of interest to the attention of members, quote only a short excerpt and indicate the URL where it can be found.

Advertising is not allowed, with the exception of brief one-time announcements directly relevant to a member—the publication of a member’s book or article, for instance. Reports by members who have no financial stake in them on products, services, books, websites, etc. are not considered advertising and are welcome. When in doubt, please contact the list managers before posting at discussionlist@the-efa.org.

If you or a colleague wish to hire an EFA member, please post the job on the EFA Job List. Please do not repost job listings from other sources on the Discussion List; if the job is of professional quality, provide the link instead. Please use the BIZ subject tag.

Those who persist in ill-mannered behavior after being warned off-list by the list managers will be temporarily placed on moderation. Messages from moderated individuals are reviewed by the list managers and may not appear if, in their judgment, they contain blatantly offensive or abusive language.

Write to discussionlist@the-efa.org. Remember to identify yourself by EFA member ID as well as by name.

Note: Internet service provider spam filter settings can interfere with proper mail delivery. If you have not been getting any list messages, this might be the reason. Only your ISP can fix this problem for you. Messages will bounce if your mailbox is full or has been inactive for too long. Again, check with your ISP. In the meantime, you can always read the messages and post to the list from the EFA page on Yahoo at http://tinyurl.com/klzufym.