"0" — guidance  and help with using TCSCB

"1" — church and Christian-healing related conference titles

"2" — secular-subjects conference titles

All threaded email messages you send using TCSCB facilities will appear under one of the conference titles. These messages will be retained for various lengths of time, depending on their usefulness over time. 

Every topic and message body can be searched. Search results appear as topic headings and sentence context with the word/s bolded. Clicking on the result will take you to the complete message text.

This enables newcomers to read past messages to catch up on discussion threads — to review resources collected over time. Message writers can return to TCSCB to edit or remove any message they have written!

A sampling of conference titles:

• 0 Conference Title Requests -- where you will request new titles
• 0 Subscriber Guidelines -- with "Conditions of Service" guidelines
• 0 Technical Support -- where you can request help in using the conference board and IRC chat rooms
• 1 Bible Scholarship Etcetera -- Bible history, sociology, etymology
• 1 CS Church Music -- discussions related thereto
• 1 CS Church Services -- church-service innovations etc.
• 1 CS Metaphysics -- general metaphysical topics
• 1 CS Monitor Discussion Topics -- a Monitor-topic forum
• 1 Healing World Problems -- prayer for community/world issues
• 1 Readers and Reading -- topics of interest to church readers
• 1 Writing for CS Periodicals -- subscribers share writing tips
• 1 Sunday School Teaching -- tips and experiences for teachers
• 1 Testimonies of Christian Science Healing -- writers are urged to submit these to The Christian Science Sentinel and The Christian Science Journal.
• 1 Writing for the Periodicals -- sharing writing skills
• 2 Items For Sale -- available for all to see until sold
• 2 Photography -- several persons have mentioned an interest in discussing their hobby
• 2 General Discussions -- for any topics not covered above
• 2 Welcome New Subscribers -- new subscribers are announced and welcomed. They frequently share information about themselves — their families, hobbies and interests

1. Your login name and password are sent to you when your subscription application is approved and account is set up.

3. Complete your individual profile, including your bio, (called "Hobbies" on the form). This information will be available for subscribers to read. You may edit your bio at any time.

4. At the bottom of your profile are "Mailing List Format" choices. Select either "Non-digest", "Digest" or "Digest/ZIPped". Then click "Save." (At the top of the page is a line reading, "For help on each field click here.)

5. Click "More" on the top tool bar to reveal a list of commands always available to you. 

6. Click "Mailing Lists" from the command list. 

7. Click the boxes to select the conferences from which you wish to receive email. A suggestion — if you are not sure which ones to select, you might consider selecting them all. Then you can return later and de-select some if you wish.

8. Click on the "Welcome New Subscribers" conference title and write a short message including personal information you would like to share with other subscribers — background, hobbies, special skills or interests, family etcetera. When newcomers and old-timers read about you, it will "add a friendly face" to your email messages.

Post — for posting a new message (requires selecting a conference and message)

Refresh — refreshes the Conference list and showing messages just posted

Chat — provides access to the list of IRC chat rooms

Search — brings up the search screen

Page — enables you to see everyone who is online and page them

More — MOST IMPORTANT COMMAND that reveals many more functions

Help — has complete operating instructions for using the board