Message posting guidelines

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Dear Members,

Most of you are doing an excellent job in the way that

you are writing your messages.

THANK YOU FOR FOLLOWING THE GUIDELINES.

Some of you still need to be reminded to trim/delete all

unnecessary lines below your message--read guideline #2 below.

 

Moderating a group is a volunteer effort and takes quite a bit of

time each day. Many moderated messages have to be edited so that they

are more easily readable. Some are deleted because the person is

trying to sell something or has not followed some of the guidelines

below.

 

We request each member to do the following:

 

1] Be courteous. Refrain from personal judgment and argumentative

comments.

 

2] In replying to a message, trim or delete all irrelevant old lines.

[if your new message can stand alone, delete everything below your

message. If you believe the post that you are replying to must remain

attached for some important reason, you may leave it attached; or,

better, leave just a line or two attached with the writer's name.

Also, below the messages are many lines of administrative information

that should be deleted all the way to the bottom of the page.]

If you are replying to daily digest, leave only relevant message or

just few lines of that message.

Often, moderator has to snip a big daily digest properly to leave only

relevant reference.

Sending a clean message helps those who receive "Individual Emails"

delivered to their inbox and those who receive the "Daily Digest" of

the messages. So, please trim/delete the unnecessary lines from your

post.

 

3] If the topic changes, change the subject line to reflect the new

topic. Be specific in your subject line regarding what you are

writing about. That way readers know whether they are interested in

opening the message. If you just want to say "Thank You," it's best

to send that privately to the person.

 

4] Avoid initiating off-topic (off theme of the group) subjects

 

5] Avoid soliciting; delete your website URL if you are selling on

that website. Some people have an automatic signature that includes

a website URL. Please delete that URL before sending your post so

that a moderator doesn't have to do it for you. If the website is

purely educational, then occasionally the URL may be included.

Similarly, the quotes by philosophers at trailing end of the post

should be removed. But if you feel that some quote is relevant to the

post, you can as well retain it.

 

6] Please read over your message and correct typos and spelling

mistakes. Add capital letters and punctuation so that your message can

be easily understood by the reader. Otherwise, the moderator has to

edit the post. It is better to prepare a postin MS-Word first, run a

spell/grammar check and then copy, paste to .

 

7) Composing the post at group website, as a 'reply' to the post

allows others to know which members replied the post and go through

all of them. This 'tree' structure cant be created by when you

send the post to ayurveda or simply reply a

daily digest.

 

8) Since does not support attachments, copy important

part of attachments in main message itself.

 

Moderators will appreciate your cooperation.

Moderators