The EC-Group
on ACOR

Background

The Assocation for Cancer Online Resources, or ACOR, hosts e-mail discussion lists for a wide variety of cancers.

One of the lists ACOR hosts is the EC-Group, or the esophageal cancer discussion list.

Founded in 1995 as an informal e-mail exchange between a handful of people dealing with EC, the list went online on February 14, 1996.

YOU ARE NOT ALONE...
..the EC-Group currently has
more than2,000 subscribers!

Subscription to the EC-Group is free.

Is the EC-Group for you?

Member Nancy Westacott posted this response to someone considering leaving the EC-Group after they lost their partner.

Esophageal cancer discussion

Since this is an e-mail list, communication between subscribers is only through e-mail correspondence.

Any mail that is sent to the EC-Group e-mail address is collected by the ACOR listserv software and then distributed to all of those subscribed to the list.

Subscribing to the EC-Group

To subscribe to the EC-Group, please fill in the information below —or— go to:

http://listserv.acor.org/
archives/ec-group.html

After the automated software accepts your subscription, you will receive a welcome message and you will also be able to send e-mail to the list.

You will not be able to post until you receive confirmation from the EC-Group listserv.

EC-Group list owners

If you have any problems subscribing or have any further questions, please contact the list owners.

Nic Oatridge

Tammy and Marc Wolfgram

To sent an e-mail to the list owners, simply address it to:

ec-group-request@listserv.acor.org

ACOR and wikipedia

If you or a loved one suffer from a rare condition you should not consider any wikipedia article to be an inclusive source of information regarding that condition. Due to the strict editing guidelines of wikipedia, some of the most useful sources of hard to find information regarding your condition, including all patient communities [like ACOR], cannot be mentioned in any article. In conclusion, wikipedia articles should be neither the first nor the principal source of information to give to a newly diagnosed patient, since wikipedia doesn't accept, in principle, mention of any patient-generated information because that information is not considered "authoritative".

— Gilles Frydman, ACOR Founder

Reference wikipedia discussion

Supporting ACOR

To find out how you can help ACOR or for more information on other cancer support lists, visit their web site at http://www.acor.org

List delivery format and common list commands

Posting to the EC-Group

Sending a message to the EC-Group is as easy as sending an e-mail message to anyone else. The address is:

ec-group@listserv.acor.org

e-mail should be sent as plain text, rather than html. Your e-mail software has a setting for this, so please check this before posting.

Attachments are not allowed, and the length of an individual message should be under 500 lines.

If your e-mail software automatically quotes the contents of the message you are replying to, please remove all but any relevant parts.

There are two formats for delivery:

Daily digest, sent once per day, which contains all of the day's e-mail. This is the default format for all new subscribers.

Individual posts, sent throughout the day, each message received by the listserv is sent as soon as it is received.

You can change your subscription format, turn mail from the list on or off, and unsubscribe by sending an e-mail to the ACOR listserv at:

listserv@listserv.acor.org

The e-mail MUST come from the e-mail address you subscribed under! If you can no longer send from that address, contact an EC-group list owner.

The e-mail subject is ignored.

The e-mail body should contain only commands for the listserv. Some useful commands are:

set ec-group nodigest
Changes delivery format to individual posts.

set ec-group digest
Changes delivery format to daily digest.

set ec-group nomail
Turns off e-mail from the ec-group. Useful if you will be away for a while but do not want to cancel your subscription.

set ec-group mail
Turns ec-group e-mail back on.

unsubscribe ec-group
Cancels your subscription to the list.

The EC-Group archives

The EC-Group archives contain a wealth of esophageal cancer information and is easily searchable by name or topic. Accessing the archives can be a bit tricky for the newcomer. Hopefully these instructions will help you get into the archives.

1. First, only people that are subscribed to the EC-group can access the archives, so if you have not signed up, that should be step one. You can do that from this page.
2. Go to http://listserv.acor.org/
   archives/ec-group.html
3. Sign in on the above ACOR site with your e-mail address — this is the e-mail address that you used when you joined the EC-Group.
4. Give yourself a password that you can remember.
5. Check the box that says "remember my password" — you must have "cookies" enabled in your web browser. Check your browser settings or your browser's help function if you're not sure if cookies are enabled. Usually they are enabled by default.
6. If prompted, a ccept the cookie that the ACOR site wants to add to your computer. It is simply a small piece of data that will remember you in subsequent visits. No personal data is sent to the ACOR server.
7. Leave the ACOR site.
8. Go to your e-mail and find the confirmation message from listserv.acor.org
9. Click on the URL web address found inside the e-mail, or paste it into your browser window. This will confirm your password.
10. Now whenever you go back to http://listserv.acor.org/
    archives/ec-group.html you will be able to search the archives. You may want to add a bookmark to your web browser.