| From: | shadowrn@*********.com (Graht) |
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| Subject: | [Admin] ShadowRN Posting Guidelines |
| Date: | Wed Sep 19 18:55:00 2001 |
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ShadowRN Posting Guidelines
There are a few rules that list members are expected to follow.
Subscription to any of the Shadowrun mailing lists is an agreement on your
part to follow those rules.
There are two types of rules:
Netiquette Guidelines
These fall into the "things you should do" category, and failure to do so
will usually result in a friendly e-mail message from GridSec or the List
Administrator.
Actionable Rules
These are rules that we have set up over time, for things which we
cannot/will not allow to occur on the lists. Breach of these rules will
result in action from the List Administrator, and can result in anything
from a formal warning to being permanently banned from any or all of the
Shadowrun mailing lists.
The Shadowrun mailing lists are not moderated. Instead, the lists are
monitored for quality of content by the List Administrators and members of
GridSec. GridSec members are also available to teach and help list members.
If you have a question about the list, don't be afraid to ask a GridSec member.
Please note: The Shadowrun Lists Policy attempts to address the more common
behaviors that have a negative impact and degrade the quality of the
discussions on each of the lists. If a behavior is destructive to
productive participation on a list, then it is a violation of netiquette.
If it isn't listed here and it occurs, then the List Admin and the members
of GridSec will collaborate to correct the problem using whatever actions
they determine are reasonable and just at that point in time.
Shadowrun Lists Netiquette Guidelines
Stay On Topic
Please help us provide a high signal-low noise list by posting on topic
(posts which are relevant to Shadowrun). If a thread does drift off-topic,
please add an [OT] tag to the beginning of the Subject: line of the thread.
At their discretion the List Admin or a member of GridSec may issue a
notice to kill an OT thread. If the List Admin or GridSec kill an off topic
thread it will be allowed to expire over the course of 24 hours after the
issuance of the kill notice. If, after 24 hours, the thread continues the
List Admin will start unsubscribing those members who are continuing to
participate in the thread.
Posting Ads on the List
The Shadowrun mailing lists accept commercial advertising for payment. We
offer a fee waiver if you can show us the canceled check for a $1000 (US)
or more donation to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. One donation per
advertisement, please. In lieu of making a donation to the EFF, you may pay
$1999 (US) to the list owner.
By the act of posting your advertisement you agree to accept responsibility
for the fee, you agree to indemnify the mailing list owner against any
legal claims from you or others in connection with your advertisement, and
you agree to pay any legal and business expenses incurred in collecting
late payment. Our liability to you is limited to a good-faith effort to
deliver your message.
Reduced rates and/or waiver of fee are available for Shadowrun related
advertisements. You must consult the mailing list owner in advance of
posting for any reduction or waiver of the advertisement fee.
Failure to pay for an advertisement will result in a permanent ban of
membership with any or all of the Shadowrun mailing lists.
Emoticons (AKA Smileys :)
Watch how you express your emotions and humor within email. Due to the lack
of vocal and nonverbal cues to our speech here, we often need something
extra to read into a message what was intended. Use of emoticons in one
form or another is highly recommended to reduce confusion.
Edit Replies
When replying to a message sent to the list, you should remove as much of
the original message from your reply as is practical. Please include only
that part of the original post which is necessary to provide a logical flow
from the question to the answer.
Identify the original sender by leading the post with a "John wrote:" style
of identification. In the event your mailer is not capable of this,
retention of a portion of the signature to serve as an identifier of the
original poster is allowed. Do not quote the entire signature, just the
line(s) identifying the original poster.
Use ">" style quotes to identify the original post.
Place your replies after/below the quoted text of the original post, and/or
place your replies between quoted paragraphs where relevant. This allows
readers to follow the flow of post and reply in a logical sequence.
Column Width
Limit the line length of your posts to 65-70 characters across. If you can,
please adjust the word wrap/column width setting on your mailer to 70.
Otherwise, some older email programs will wrap the text at the wrong point
when displaying your post, or not at all.
One Liners and Me too's
Please take a moment to ask yourself how much you are contributing to a
thread with a reply containing only 'me too', 'LOL' or similar replies.
Private vs List Mail
When replying to a message please take a moment to consider whether it's of
general interest to the list. Posts that do not contribute to thread
content, are aimed at a single individual, or do not contribute to increase
the knowledge base of the list members, should be sent by private email to
the member concerned.
Chain Letters
Do not send chain letters (such as the Good Times Virus, the Neman Marcus
Cookie Recipe, the Snowball Fight, etc) to ShadowRN. If you think it is
necessary to post to the list please check with the List Admin or a member
of GridSec first.
* http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html * Good source of information on
the Hoaxes (Good Times, AOL4FREE) that are circulating. *
http://www.urbanlegends.com/ * Information on some of the Urban legends
(Organ Theft is the most known one)
Actionable Guidelines
Mail Attachments, HTML and Styled Posts
Do not send email attachments to any of the Shadowrun mailing lists.
Attachments can contain viruses, and are also a waste of bandwidth. If you
have something you want to share, put it on a web site and send the URL to
the list. Or, offer to email it privately on a by-request basis.
Also, since some mailers interpret a forward as an attachment, a good
alternative is to copy & paste text from a document into a normal email
post. If the message is rather long, add a statement to that effect in the
Subject: line (Subject: New cyberware (long)).
Many current email clients are set up to send mail in other than plain text
format by default, RTF, HTML, attached files, etc. These settings render
email unreadable by some members of this list and are a large strain on
bandwidth.
Some list members access their mail from work, and due to the possibility
of downloading a virus or other nasties, having an attachment from a post
from the list can result them in being fired from their job. Drastic, I
know, but not when you consider the damage an attachment with a virus can
do to a LAN.
Use of these features is therefore forbidden when sending mail to the list.
If you need help disabling non-plain text formatting, please contact a
member of GridSec for help.
Flaming
Posting extremely foul or abusive language aimed at a fellow list member is
forbidden. This includes obscenities, verbal harassment, or comments that
would prove offensive based on race, religion, or sexual orientation.
Slandering a Company or Individual
Do not use the Shadowrun mailing lists to slander or otherwise attack a
Company or Individual. This rule does not include flames. It is reserved
for instances where the content of the post is such that the individual or
company under discussion may be harmed in their ability to continue to
survive as a business entity or where their ability to conduct business is
put in jeopardy. This includes accusations of illegal and unethical activity.
Off-Limits Discussions
Due to the fact that every time they get brought up in any fashion and a
cinder war begins, the following topics are not to be continued: OS
debates, Mailer debates, Religious debates, as well as some other list
specific topics. Some of these can be found as stories written by list
members and can be found in the Tolmwappers Lecture Circle found on this site.
Copyrighted Material
Do not quote copyrighted material outside of fair use guidelines. You may
quote rules or small sections from a FASA publication to support your point
or disprove someone else's, but do not post significant portions of a FASA
publication to the list.
All private email is considered to be copyrighted by the original author.
If you post private e-mail to the list, in whole or in part, you must
include the author's permission to post the material publicly.
Spam and Harassment
You may not use addresses obtained from the Shadowrun mailing lists to
harass others, or to send them offensive, abusive or commercial email. If
you believe you have received such a message, please forward it to the List
Admin and GridSec with full headers for investigation.
Members who repeatedly violate the policies and disrupt the use of the list
by others will be dealt with on a case by case basis, but action can
include (but are not limited to): temporary unsubscription from the list,
permanent unsubscription from the list, and notification to the violator's
sysadmin or service provider.
If we can all adhere to these few guidelines, posting will be a bit more
uniform and we'll have everyone in the same netiquette pool.
To Life,
-Graht
ShadowRN Assistant Fearless Leader II
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