Yes almighty overlord of the Dakota universe!
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:05 PM, <jon@dakota-truck.net> wrote:
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> Rules, suggestions, and guidelines for posting to the Dakota Mailing List
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> 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:
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> Replying To Messages:
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> 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.
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> 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:
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> Original message: Your reply:
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> Point 1 Original poster wrote:
> Point 2 >Point 1
> Point 3 Your response to point 1
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> >Point 2
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> Your response to point 2
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> >Point 3
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> Your response to point 3
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> 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.
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> Binary Attachments:
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> 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.
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> 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!
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> 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.
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> Threads And Topics:
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> (Definition: A thread is a series of posts under the same subject.)
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> 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.
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> For example:
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> Old thread: Subject: K&N Filtercharger
> New thread: Subject: Doug Thorley headers Was: K&N Filtercharger
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> 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.
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> 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)
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> When posting, it is helpful to choose a good name for your post.
> Try to pick a name that will give people some idea of the content of
> your post.
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> While I'm on the subject of subject names, be careful about putting
> words that are used in administrative commands in your subject. (i.e.
> subscribe, unsubscribe, help, etc.) If you do, the list might think that
> you're trying to send an administrative command to the list (instead of
> majordomo@dakota-truck.net) and it will bounce your message to me for approval.
> When I get your message, I can approve it and send if off to the list, but
> it'll obviously take longer for your message to go through.
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> Flames, Bickering, And Other Such Nonsense:
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> Three words: DON'T DO IT! More words: If you feel the need to get
> into a fightin' match with another DMLer, please do so via private e-mail.
> There are about a thousand other DMLers who could care less about your
> particular squabble. Plus, posts from the DML are archived for all eternity
> and viewable by hundreds of millions of web surfers. The DML as a whole
> has traditionally been quite good in this regard, but as our numbers grow,
> naturally, the intimate nature of the list can start to deteriorate
> somewhat. I don't think it necessarily HAS to be this way though, and
> I'd really prefer if non-constructive posts of this nature were not spewed
> across the list. Like I mentioned before, I'm not preventing you from
> continuing your squabble, just please do it via private e-mail. I don't
> like having to police the list, but I'm not going to let a vocal minority
> screw up the list for everyone else, so if I have to resort to warnings
> and bans, I will. How do you know if a thread is getting out of control?
> Just think real hard before you send something out. Is your post a rational
> one, based on facts, or is it full of personal attacks? Even if it is
> rational, if we've heard it a million times before and all its doing is to
> further a pointless argument, why post it again? A REALLY good clue is if
> you notice other DMLers replying to the posts with messages along the lines
> of "please take this off list", or "stop this", its best to comply and take
> it to private e-mail. Thanks! :-)
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> The DML Off Topic list:
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> The DML Off Topic list was created by Mike Clark (mike@mikeclark.net) for
> off topic posts. Basically this is a bunch of DMLers talking about
> non-Dakota topics. On the DML Off Topic list, you can talk about whatever
> you want! We DMLers have established quite a close-knit community, and
> its really nice to be able to talk about other things with the people
> we have come to know so well. Here is the info if you'd like to subscribe:
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> If you have any questions, comments, corrections, etc., feel free to mail
> me at jon@dakota-truck.net. Thanks!!
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> -Jon-
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