Subject: | |
From: | |
Reply To: | |
Date: | Fri, 24 Apr 1998 20:27:00 -0700 |
Content-Type: | text/plain |
Parts/Attachments: |
|
|
If you don't see a message that you've sent to the list for posting within
24 hours, then you can fairly well assume it either met with an "accident"
on the information highway OR it did not "appear" to comply with one or more
of the guidelines below i.e. it was not, in my best judgment for the good of
all, approved for posting.
So far today, the four most popular reasons messages were not OK'd:
1) forgetting to change the DIGEST subject line to something appropriate for
the topic of the post
2) email programs that are sending HTML or quoted-printable MIME encoding
which would create "garbage" characters in the DIGEST, ARCHIVES and the
email reader windows of other listmembers
3) Over quoting which includes both quoting entire messages and/or headers
of messages being replied-to or just quoting far more than is necessary to
convey meaning -- folks want to read what you have to say and not be forced
to reread what has already been written
4) messages that should have been sent privately -- a private, "personal"
response for a welcome or to give congratulations is far more "touching" and
meaningful.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Grant
--
Compliance with the following guidelines is required to have
messages posted to the list:
* CONTENT of messages posted to the list:
- are to be supportive and informative, not confrontational
- no "off topic" posting
- do not post to topics which have a '!STOPPER
- use private email for messages not relevant to all subscribers
- no foul language
- no cross posting the same message to two or more lists
* YOUR EMAIL PROGRAM SETUP should be plain text so that your
posts will be readable by all subscribers regardless of their
computer and email program.
- no text/enriched
- no charset="x-user-defined"
- no HTML
- no attachments
- no winmail.dat files
- no multipart/mixed
- no multipart/signed
- no multipart/alternative
- no multipart/related
- no quoted printable MIME encoding
- no Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
- no Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
- no multi-part message in MIME format
* EDITING OF MESSAGES REPLIED TO
- trim all but what is absolutely essential
- quoted text should be less than new text
- never quote headers nor entire messages
- try not quoting at all, paraphrase as an alternative
* SUBJECT LINES
- change DIGEST subject lines to reflect the topic of the post
- if the topic is changed under a thread, change the subject line
* SIGNATURE FILES
- the use of sig. files and quote lines are not allowed
Thank you for your cooperation.
listowner
--
STONE and SPEAR private email support groups
ATKINS-NEW * CELIAC-DIABETES * LOWCARB-LIST * LC-DIABETES * PALEOFOOD
SUBSCRIBE and SIGNOFF, ARCHIVES, LISTSERV COMMANDS and LINKS at:
http://www.mountain-inter.net/~magnuson/
--
|
|
|