(CHIT CHAT) ALL: Posting guidlines as per the group

[mike coleman]

MIKE, ABSOLUTELY NO PROBLEM
THANKS FOR MOVING ME UP MENTALLY
PEACE (i did think I got personally flamed a bit, I feel better, thank you)
M


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