ALL: Posting guidlines as per the group

[mike coleman]

I guess you are saying Trev isn't connected to Hawkwind enough and you need
that marked "other"?
I was actually planning on posting about the snottiness of _not flaming_
under certain guidelines as forum ettiquette is in actuality a joke
time to evole
mc



On 9/16/07, Mike Montfort <mike.montfort at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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:
>
>
> =-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=
>
> 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.
>
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>
> 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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>
>
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