Jon,I re-read your guidelines and recommendations and
stuff,and I agree 1000%!! But I feel there should be
just a little more...
What about personal etiquette? What about what we
should be doing while on the DML that others may not
be able to hear or see?
For instance....posture. Are we fully erect while
posting? This is important. We can't be slouchers. Our
wives could tell us if we're falling short in this
regard. Secondly,do we have both elbows on the
computer desk,or are we laying both hands on the
laptop as we type? I pray not,but we can't just assume
that everyone on the list has even the most basic
manners,especially those that happen to reside in the
lower half of the U.S. We just can't. So Jon,anything
you could add to the monthly posting in that vein
would be helpful as well..
The other thing that has been "overlooked" by many is
our choice of words. I know we've been pretty good
with not using vulgarity,especially when compared with
other lists. But what about the lack of polite
language? Let me cite a possible example that we could
mull over,maybe:
"Bernd,my Dak is coming up P0155,but I've changed the
O2 sensor. Prithee that you could give me some
pointers?" (Prithee is Old English for "I pray
thee",and just sounds polite,even today.)
Now,be assured that I'm only trying to help the entire
list,and am NOT attempting to compensate for any
insecurities,lack of self-esteem,or several mental
issues on my part.
And list,....thanks. Really. Thanks to you,I believe I
have found my voice. :)
Steve P.
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> Rules, suggestions, and guidelines for posting to
> the Dakota Mailing List
>
> This document contains some rules, suggestions,
> and guidelines for
> messages which are posted to the Dakota Mailing
> List. In general, these
> are suggestions and guidelines, more than hard and
> fast rules. It would be
> cool if everyone followed these suggestions all the
> time, but there is
> certainly room for deviation. (I'll be the first to
> admit that I've
> strayed from these from time to time.) :-) Well,
> here they are:
>
>
>
>
> Replying To Messages:
>
> When replying to a message, please incude
> only the relavent portions
> of the original message. For example, a post
> might bring up four or five
> seperate points. If you're only going to
> address one of those points,
> instead of quoting the entire original message,
> only include the portion
> of the message which contains the point you're
> responding to. This will
> greatly decrease bandwidth useage and it will
> make posts to the list
> much easier to read. However, if a little
> snipping is good, more
> snipping is not necessarily better. Be careful
> not to snip *too* much!
> Leave enough of the original message so that the
> reader can tell what is
> going on.
>
> When replying to seperate parts of a
> message, it is a good idea to
> insert your replies in with the original
> message, rather than responding
> to all the points at the end of the message in a
> big block. For
> example:
>
> Original message: Your reply:
>
> Point 1 Original
> poster wrote:
> Point 2 >Point 1
> Point 3 Your
> response to point 1
>
> >Point 2
>
> Your
> response to point 2
>
> >Point 3
>
> Your
> response to point 3
>
> Now, if someone wants to respond to your
> points, they just insert them
> at the appropriate location. Be sure to leave
> some space between the
> original message and your replies, to make it
> easier to tell the two apart.
>
>
>
>
> Binary Attachments:
>
> These are not good. Please don't attach files
> to your posts. If
> you've got something (ex: a picture, sound, etc)
> that you'd like
> people to be able to see, you can either post it on
> your own WWW page and
> give people the URL, or (if applicable), you can
> send it to me (via e-mail)
> for incusion on the DML Home Page. My address is
> jon@dakota-truck.net.
>
> NOTE: You might be sending binary attachments
> to the list without
> even knowing it!! Some mailers (most of which are
> made by Microsoft) include
> extra formatting information as an attachment which
> is incomprehensible by
> standard e-mail clients. It shows up as
> gobbelty-gook for most people. One
> such attachment is called TNEF. Another type puts a
> copy of the message at
> the end, formatted completely in HTML. There may be
> others. You should go
> through the options or preferences of your mailer
> and turn these things off!
>
> Speaking of gobbelty-gook... Please make sure
> that your e-mail client
> is set to send out your messages as ASCII or "plain
> text" format. (As
> opposed to HTML, "rich text", "styled text", etc.)
> Anything but plain
> text will show up as gobbelty-gook for a lot of
> people. (Including all
> of the people on the digest version, which is about
> half of the members
> on the list...) (Actually, the list filters are
> pretty decent, and if
> you send a message to the DML which isn't plain
> text, it will probably
> get bounced back at you.) Note that if you use AOL
> 6.0, you don't have
> much choice; HTML attachments are forced into every
> message you send.
> If you have AOL 6.0, you should send your posts to
> the list to
> aol@dakota-truck.net. That will run them through a
> program that will
> strip out the HTML junk before sending it off to the
> list.
>
>
>
>
> Threads And Topics:
>
> (Definition: A thread is a series of posts under
> the same subject.)
>
> Oftentimes, a thread will mutate into something
> very different than what
> the original post was about. If this happens,
> please change the subject of
> the post (to reflect the new topic of discussion)
> when you reply. An
> accepted method of doing this is to put the new
> subject at the beginning of
> the subject, then the keyword "Was:", followed by
> the original subject.
>
> For example:
>
> Old thread: Subject: K&N Filtercharger
> New thread: Subject: Doug Thorley headers
> Was: K&N Filtercharger
>
> This way, the subject gets changed to reflect the
> content of the post,
> but people who were following the original thread
> will notice the change
> and can follow the new thread, if they wish.
>
> Sometimes, a thread will mutate into something
> not related to Dakotas
> at all. If this happens, please direct your
> response directly to the
> interested parties (as opposed to the entire list).
> (By default, your
> responses are sent to the list. You will have to
> determine who sent
> the message, and cut and paste their e-mail address
> into the "To:" field.)
> Another alternative is to use the DML Off Topic
> list. (See Below)
>
>
> When posting, it is helpful to choose a good
> name for your post.
>
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