New mailing list: UK-multiple

[36.livejournal.com]

http://www.topica.com/lists/uk-multiple/

UK-multiple is a new mailing list for multiple, mid-continuum and plural people living in the United Kingdom.

Everyone is welcome including friends, partners and people outside of the UK, however members should respect each other's self definitions and the list focus should stay upon multiplicity/plurality in the UK.

Trigger warnings and spoilers are not required. All types of plural and multiple people are welcome.

As well as general chat and networking, topics of discussion will (hopefully) explore the experience of being multiple in the UK with our culture and psychiatry's attitudes to plurality and life in general. What's it like being out as multiple in the UK? How does the UK media treat the subject? Is it more or less difficult to find sympathetic therapists if required? Are there less multiples in the UK? Are we just more difficult to find? Is multiplicity less visible here? Etc.

http://www.topica.com/lists/uk-multiple/

Comments

[great-stoneface.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'm being a total dunce here, but what's mid-continuum and plural?

[36.livejournal.com]

'Mid-continuum' is the annoying but accepted term for people who are somewhere between a multiple system and a singular person. Mid-continuum includes systems where everyone is all the same person as well as being in some way seperate, this could be systems where all members have a common root, at some level they are connected and are the same (in multiple systems the members are entirely seperate from each other (by this model anyway)), or systems where several members cooperate seamlessly to be one or a small number of entities. People who are multiple sometime and singular at other times and perhaps somewhere between those at other times could also be included under the term.

'Plural' is the umbrella term that includes all people who aren't completely singular. Mid-continuum and multiple. Some people/systems identify as just plural and not either of mid-cont or multiple.

[moonfroggy.livejournal.com]

this is my favorite web page about continuum stuff

http://www.asarian.org/~vickis/continuum.html

Re:

[great-stoneface.livejournal.com]

Thanks. That helps me a lot to understand the different degrees of multiple. I think I may be mid-continuum. Or co-conscious. Or single. Hell, I don't know what I (we) are.

[the-maenad.livejournal.com]

Well, I tried to sign up. I can even cope with Topica demanding that you enter one and only one of 'male' and 'female'. But it also demands your zip code, even if you tell it you live in the UK.

Stupid sodding US-imperialist bunch. Couldn't it be on a less restricted listserv?

[36.livejournal.com]

As listservs go Topica manages to be pretty inoffensive. From experience I find that list members like nice web interfaces and topica provides that without being yahoo or microsoft and without popping up ads everywhere (there are banner ads, but certain other list sites do half page ads on every archive page and full page ads every three clicks (eek)), so using majordomo and the like turn out to be unpopular choices (apparently people want to view archives online and not get emailed a text file representing a month's messages (oh actually it's that if there's only the latter option, several members won't be able to get to the archives at all and you spend lots of time on list explaining how to do that)).

As for zipcode, I put my post code in and it worked fine. In fact you could make something up and it would work fine (I think they only check it as valid if you're in the US, they might not even do that).

And as for gender, this is what I did... signed up with a random choice, then went to 'My Topica' and changed my gender to 'Make a selection', which is actually the closest to my actual gender I've seen on these sites :)

Topica doesn't put ads, text or graphic, anywhere in list email. It has a reasonably nice web interface, so all those people with phobias of majordomo (which from experience is lots) won't run away. Pretty much all of the empowered multiple lists are on there and topica has never done anything annoying (unlike yahoo who likes to say 'this is an adult list you must be logged in and click past several warnings to get to its website'). I've used Topica for a long time, for subscription and ownership of several lists and I don't have any complaints about them (other than that every time I make a multiple list it goes somewhere naff in the directory because the only option is bunching it in with dissociative disorders, and no list of mine's going there (ooh actually I could move it to a British area of the directory now, hurrah)).

If you've got a fancy web based list hosting service that has a web interface for the archives and the like while also not filling list email with ads of various kinds, please let me know about it, because if there was ever a time to move a mailing list, it's when it still only has three members and three posts. Otherwise Topica seems to be the best option in this case, from the options I've seen.

[the-maenad.livejournal.com]

Just being selfish; I have a yahoogroup account and don't have a Topica one. After fighting with it all lunchtime I still don't seem to. Very frustrating. It keeps telling me I'm unverified even after I've sent it half a dozen email confirmations, and the help menu tells me there should be a pop up menu somewhere I can't see one.

May try from my home computer tonight if I can get it working.

[36.livejournal.com]

Just to let you know, the topica web interface has been screwed for the last two or three days. It seems to be working OK now.

If you'd like you can email me a preferred address and I'll use the topica invite feature to help you along.

That goes for anyone else who's had trouble joining too. Try to mention the name of the mailing list somewhere obvious in the email otherwise I may accidentally sub you to some other list I maintain...

Hope this helps.