ALL: Posting guidlines as per the group

[Mike Montfort]

I was wondering if people could get back to the proper subject 
guidelines for this group.


Frankly this group has degenerated into a chat forum for a small handful 
of people, and most of it has nada to do with what the group is about.  
Much of it is nearly incoherent ramblings that I have no time to go 
through and possibly pick out the nuggets of actual content.


Look I don't personally care what you say here.  Post 80 times daily 
inane musing about your navel.  Just mark it accordingly "Other: This is 
my navel" so that the listserv can do it's job and send it to the people 
who actually care.  This isn't about censorship, it's about filtering.  
By not following the posting guidelines people's inboxs are being filled 
up with stuff they don't care about. Perhaps you only want to hear about 
BOC and BRAIN and don't like HW.. or visa vera.


For myself, and I am very confident that I speak for others, if people 
would kindly follow the Admin guidelines then I for one could fix my 
listserv subscription to edit out all the "Other" topic doo dah that 
goes on around here and concentrate on HW. BRAIN and BOC chat.


To help I have taken this directly from the Admin post when you join:


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The current crop of topics which can be selected/specified are:

	Admin	Admin-specific 
	BOC	Blue Oyster Cult-specific
	HW	Hawkwind-specific
	BRAIN	Brain Surgeons-specific
	NIK	NikWind-specific
	OTHER	Everything not specifically flagged as a topic
	ALL	Everything (This is the default topic filter)

   To categorize a mail message, you should put the topic keyword(s) in the
"Subject:" of the mail you send to the list. For example, to specify that a
mail message is pertinent to BOC and the Brain Surgeons, you could use:

	Subject: BOC,BRAIN: Will the original BOC ever get back together?

   As you can see, multiple topics can be specified on one subject line.

   Please note that topic selection will be ignored for digest mode.

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Now honestly the chances of this post having any impact on the signal to 
noise ratio that is present in this group right now are two: Slim and 
None.  But I needed to get this off my chest and hope that maybe people 
will actually follow the rules that they agreed to when they subscribed 
to the list.

/out

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