ALL: Posting guidlines as per the group

[Mike Montfort]

This post was not focused on any one person but a overall trend over the 
year.

However to reply to Mr Coleman specifically, it is like this

Other: ___________________

this will let the listserv grab the subject title by looking for what 
happpens before the colon.

Again, this is just a desire to follow the guidelines of the group.  
What anyone posts is up to them, its a free group and lots of rambling 
is very encouraged. Just mark it accordingly.

Thanks again

Mike
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Mike Montfort 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
>