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Message no. 1
From: Adam J <fro@***.AB.CA>
Subject: [Admin] Bi-weekly Posting Guidelines.
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 1997 10:57:31 -0600
Ta-da! :)

You are all members of the ShadowRN mailing list, some of you dating for
years before me, both age and list-wise. This list is growing in size by
the day, and so I've whipped together a Posting Guidelines that should go
out every other Satuday. *Runs off to check that today is Saturday in
Canada.* Good, it is :)
The Full FAQ's are currently at http://shadowrun.home.ml.org, and are
presently being expanded and updated.

1. When replying to a message, be sure to quote what you are replying too.
1a. Snip the part that you aren't replying too, but don't snip so much it
becomes illegible
1b. Be sure to Correctly identify who said what you are quoting.

Good example:
----
On Friday July 4th Gurth Said:
>My real name is Bob. Bob Smith.
>So now you know.

Wow that a really cool name there Bob!

-Adam
-----

Bad Example:
-----
On suchaday Chez said
On suchaday Lucid said
On suchaday Hayden said
>>>Some text
>>20 lines of unreleated text.
>A few more lines of even more unrelated text.
>>Some stuff from the other poster.

Cool.

-Adam
-----

1d. Snip a persons signature file, unless it is vital to the reply.
1e. Do not use Old-Shadowrun style quotes.
Example

[>>>>> Cool! <<<<<]

This confuses the people who are on both ShadowRN and ShadowTK, and looks
ugly, to boot.

2. After writing your email, take ten seconds to think "Should this go to
the list, or directly to the person I'm replying too?" If its indepth and
rather specific, it may be better just going to the one person.

3. Do not Start a thread that is already OFF TOPIC. [OT]. We get enough
[OT] from topic drift, anyhow.

4. Full logs since the inception of the list are available via anonymous
ftp at listproc.itribe.net, and at http://www.itribe.net/~mark

5. If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.

Assistant Fearless Leader
Adam Jury

--
http://shadowrun.home.ml.org \ TSS Productions \ The Shadowrun Supplemental
ShadowRN Assistant Fearless Leader \ WildAngle@******** \ fro@***.ab.ca
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"Can I have a cup of angst to go with my un-happy meal?" -- Hi & Lois
Message no. 2
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: [Admin] Bi-weekly Posting Guidelines.
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 12:58:43 +0100
Adam J said on 10:57/ 5 Jul 97...

> On Friday July 4th Gurth Said:
> >My real name is Bob. Bob Smith.
> >So now you know.
>
> Wow that a really cool name there Bob!
>
> -Adam

Hey! What did I tell you about mentioning my name where any idiot can read
it?!

:)


Seriously, this posting guidelines may be a good idea, except you may want
to replace the "good" example by something else, since it's totally OT for
ShadowRN. How about something like:

On 5 July 1997 Adam J said:
> We really need a ruling from FASA as to whether spells can be ground
> through quickenings.

Yeah, that's been long overdue. Hopefully SR3 will cover it...
-- Joe Blow

> 1e. Do not use Old-Shadowrun style quotes.
> Example
>
> [>>>>> Cool! <<<<<]

For the record, those quotes were >>>>>[ ]<<<<<...

Also maybe a more explicit mention of the Me Too syndrome would be useful.

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Two words: therapy.
-> NERPS Project Leader & Unofficial Shadowrun Guru <-
-> The Plastic Warriors Page: http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/plastic.html <-

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Message no. 3
From: Michael Broadwater <mbroadwa@*******.GLENAYRE.COM>
Subject: Re: [Admin] Bi-weekly Posting Guidelines.
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 13:06:35 -0500
At 12:58 PM 7/6/97 +0100, Gurth wrote:
>Adam J said on 10:57/ 5 Jul 97...
>
>> On Friday July 4th Gurth Said:
>> >My real name is Bob. Bob Smith.
>> >So now you know.
>>
>> Wow that a really cool name there Bob!
>>
>> -Adam
>
>Hey! What did I tell you about mentioning my name where any idiot can read
>it?!
>
>:)

Hey, I take offense to this, Gurth. I'm not any idiot. I'm a very
specific kind of idiot. You don't find idiots like me just laying on the
ground, ya know. You've got to search for them.

This reminds me of something (the posting guidelines, not the idiot bit)
Is the FAQ being sent out to ppl who join yet? Or on some kind of regular
basis? I've gotten it once or twice since joining, but I can never quite
figure out why it was being sent or how often. I didn't get it when I
re-joined, that I'm sure of. I was just thinking that the FAQ would be
helpful as well as the posting guidelines.


Rasputin-the-trying-to-get-into-an-Sr-book-magekin
http://www.bcl.net/~rasputin

"An object at rest cannot be stopped" - The Mad Midnight Bomber Who Bombs
at Midnight

But his boss calls him: Mike Broadwater

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