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All lists are under full moderation mode for the time being.

Today I've been trying to send out a "reason" with most messages which
didn't appear to comply with the guidelines and/or the mandate of the list.

Please read on, as reminders & hints of what appears to be something amiss
will not be sent out in the future i.e. an apparent non-compliant post will
be rejected without further notice preventing it from being sent to the
list.

The idea is to run a "squeaky clean" and "tight" list that "sings" to it's
mandate, stays on topic and has a very low noise to signal ratio to make it
enjoyable, useful and doable for an ever increasing number of subscribers
(total STONE and SPEAR now exceeds 3300 subscriptions.)

Also, since the news groups have lost some (or most) of their anti-spam
detectives, it appears to me that lists such as ours have become targets of
"Naughty Persons" with their own agenda, those who dislike guidelines and
those who love trolling and igniting flame wars.  Addresses of the "Naughty"
are deleted very quickly.

Thank you for your cooperation.
Grant

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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
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