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Message no. 1
From: Barbie <barbie@**********.COM>
Subject: listserv idea was Re: Sorry....
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 18:52:04 -0500
To solve such postings from the beginning would it not be better
if the listserver put a sig of its own at the bottom of each mail thats states
how to get help or how to signoff?

The rolemasterlist does just that and no such questions had arise since then
and I thing its worth the little more lines.
--
Barbie


==================================================
You can see the earth we`re high here we`re
climbing over sumertowm you can kiss the air we`re
gliding follow me for sumerland no sound no life
no essence we lay enstranged in our curious ways
memories lay beside us but i`m seeing through an
age who i`m through sumerland.

(Fields of the Nephilim-Eilzium-Weil of Sumer)

Message no. 2
From: "Faux Pas (Thomas)" <thomas@*******.COM>
Subject: Re: listserv idea was Re: Sorry....
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 12:45:41 -0500
At 06:52 PM 7/17/97 -0500, Barbie whispered:
>To solve such postings from the beginning would it not be better
>if the listserver put a sig of its own at the bottom of each mail thats
states
>how to get help or how to signoff?
>
>The rolemasterlist does just that and no such questions had arise since then
>and I thing its worth the little more lines.
>--
>Barbie
>
>
>==================================================
>You can see the earth we`re high here we`re
>climbing over sumertowm you can kiss the air we`re
>gliding follow me for sumerland no sound no life
>no essence we lay enstranged in our curious ways
>memories lay beside us but i`m seeing through an
>age who i`m through sumerland.
>
>(Fields of the Nephilim-Eilzium-Weil of Sumer)
>
>==================================================
>


If the additional text lines is about four lines and it's on every message,
when someone posts a short message like yours (which I quoted for
illustration) you get five lines of message, sixteen lines of your sig
(counting from the em-dash to the last blank line), and four more lines
from the list server. Result? Five lines of new content, twenty lines of
information we'd see on dozens of messages.

-Thomas Deeny
Your Guide to Shadowrun -- http://shadowrun.miningco.com -- updated every
Wednesday!

"First I'm going to bother every one I meet, and then I'll go home and get
drunk."
-Tippy Turtle
Message no. 3
From: Jaymz <justin@******.NET>
Subject: Re: listserv idea was Re: Sorry....
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 23:15:41 -0500
#If the additional text lines is about four lines and it's on every message,
#when someone posts a short message like yours (which I quoted for
#illustration) you get five lines of message, sixteen lines of your sig
#(counting from the em-dash to the last blank line), and four more lines
#from the list server. Result? Five lines of new content, twenty lines of
#information we'd see on dozens of messages.

but if it were one additional line, say,
Administrivia : <email address>
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/--justin@****.mcp.com----------------------justin@******.net--\
|Justin Bell NIC:JB3084| Time and rules are changing. |
|Simon & Schuster | Attention span is quickening. |
|Programmer | Welcome to the Information Age. |
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Message no. 4
From: Adam J <fro@***.AB.CA>
Subject: Re: listserv idea was Re: Sorry....
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 22:59:42 -0600
zAt 18:52 7/17/97 -0500, you wrote:
>To solve such postings from the beginning would it not be better
>if the listserver put a sig of its own at the bottom of each mail thats
states
>how to get help or how to signoff?
>
>The rolemasterlist does just that and no such questions had arise since then
>and I thing its worth the little more lines.

Another mailing list I'm on does it, and people still ask every week how to
unsubscribe, or they say it does't work.
Its not an idea I would throw out, but I really don't think its all that
nessesary.

-Adam
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http://shadowrun.home.ml.org \ TSS Productions \ The Shadowrun Supplemental
ShadowRN Assistant Fearless Leader \ WildAngle@******** \ fro@***.ab.ca
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Message no. 5
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: listserv idea was Re: Sorry....
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 11:31:59 +0100
Adam J said on 22:59/17 Jul 97...

> Another mailing list I'm on does it, and people still ask every week how to
> unsubscribe, or they say it does't work.
> Its not an idea I would throw out, but I really don't think its all that
> nessesary.

What about this suggested bi-weekly "How to reply to messages" post? If
you still plan to go through with that, you could easily add three or four
lines saying how to unsubscribe, preferably at the start of the post.

--
Gurth@******.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/index.html
All these worthless nights, all these wasted days
-> NERPS Project Leader & Unofficial Shadowrun Guru <-
-> The Plastic Warriors Page: http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/plastic.html <-

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Message no. 6
From: Adam J <fro@***.AB.CA>
Subject: Re: listserv idea was Re: Sorry....
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 03:50:30 -0600
At 11:31 7/18/97 +0100, you wrote:
>What about this suggested bi-weekly "How to reply to messages" post? If
>you still plan to go through with that, you could easily add three or four
>lines saying how to unsubscribe, preferably at the start of the post.

Will do, Guruboy :)
As well as the command for 'help' :)

-Adam
Who slept through Thursday.

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http://shadowrun.home.ml.org \ TSS Productions \ The Shadowrun Supplemental
ShadowRN Assistant Fearless Leader \ WildAngle@******** \ fro@***.ab.ca
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