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

misspelled words. 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 or

simply reply a daily digest.

 

8) Since our group does not support attachments, copy

important part of attachments in main message itself.

 

9)Please refrain from sending material published at other

websites, without giving the link. Since someone has taken a great

effort in creating website along with all graphics etc. Best is to

give

link alone so that reader can visit the website himself to enjoy all

material along with graphics, references etc. This way, we do not

violate any copyright law too. Do not feel that members will not read

the material at other website by simply giving a link only. The

interested member will always chase out all the links. On

the other hand, member who wants to get an overall picture first, and

go into details later, gets that freedom.

 

Moderators will appreciate your cooperation.

Moderators