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MAILING LIST USERS PLEASE READ THIS

Posted by Jaz on 1998-03-09

Dear Coder's Guild mailing list users,

This is an unmoderated mailing list, which means
nobody looks at the mails going to tcg@xxxx.xx.xx
before they are sent to all members.

To keep up the order in such an UNmoderated list,
there are some rules to be followed. Of course I
won't kill somebody if he doesn't follow the rules
but I would be glad if you would at least try to
do:

- please don't send mails in HTML format, just in
plain text. I know that most of don't even know that
they send in HTML but there must be a switch
somewhere in your mail program and most likely you
can even define tcg@xxxx.xx.xx as a "non-html-address"
if you need HTML mails in your daily e-mail life.

- never send file attachments with your mails. the
attachments will cause a dozens of pages long code
of chars and numbers in the digest mails. Remember
that hundreds of people will have to download this
useless junk.

- most users of the list get the mails in "digest mode"
which means that they get only one mail each day that
contains all mails that arrived at tcg@xxxx.xx.xx
during the past 24 hours. As the mails are listed one
beneath another the single mails have no single subjects
(how could they!), only the whole digest mail has the
subject "TCG digest xy". So please cut the subject of
the mail you want to reply to and paste it in the
subject field in the header of your reply. Nobody
knows what to find under "Re: TCG digest 241".

- don't quote the whole digest mail if you reply a
mail but quote only the part of the digest mail that
includes the message you want to reply to.


Jaz

ps. for people who can't get the Coder's Guild
mailing list mails via e-mail I put a so-called
"Web Interface" on the Coder's Guild page, that
allows you to read the mails on the web. Every
Saturday I have to translate all the digest mails
into HTML files for this. I always spend
minutes deleting junk from the digest mails...

--- luna.kil@xxxxxxx.xxx
=== member of the Coder's Guild:
--- http://www.paracatz.com/codersguild/

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