[thelist] You need to read me. Really.

[A. Erickson]

With permission from Dan, I wanted to add this one little thing that I think
makes mailing lists of this size work so much better.

Descriptive subject lines.

Please be descriptive. Please don't ever send a "no subject" or blank
subject line to the list. Please don't send things like "aiiiiii!" or "help
me!" or "I'm going crazy" in your subject line -- that does not much help
others to help you.

Please, if you're on the digest -- never put the digest subject in the
subject line. Copy and paste the subject line from the email within the
digest to which you're replying. This will help everyone to figure out what
you're talking about.

Oh, and this goes without saying, never quote the entire digest. Quote only
the part to which you are replying.

Thanks!!

- amanda


> Hi,
>
> I'm Dan. You may know me as djc, Daniel, 'The guy buying another pitcher
> of beer', or even 'uhh.. who?'. I happen to be the guy that runs
> thelist, and its come to my attention lately that my laxidazical ways of
> list administration and over easy-goingness(is that even a word?
> *shrug*) on my part have led to what I've come to know as 'TALKS' or
> "Thelisters Abiding in Lengthy offtopiK emailS" Yes, thats topik with a
> 'K'. w3rd.
>
> At any rate, 'TALKS', when left unchecked and untreated, has been known
> to cause general unhappiness and bitching on thelist about people not
> respecting their fellow evolters. To make sure you don't contribute to
> "TALKS" follow these important guidelines:
>
> - Read http://lists.evolt.org/index.cfm/a/listinfo
>
> - Trim those footers!! At the bottom of each an every email is a footer
> that has links to helpful thelist pages. Sometimes, those footers get
> left on by people when they respond to a post, which can cause
> crankiness, irritability, and general non-smurfyness in those evolters
> who recieve the digest list, or our european/south american/etc brethren
> who have to pay for their Internet Service. In my own independant
> studies, I've proven that the cost of 'unsnipped footers' to an average
> digest mode evolter from France is well over US $1,121,992.09 per year!
> In other words, TRIM those posts!!! Thats a boatload of wine!
>
> - If you post off-topic messages to thelist you must pay with a <tip>.
> If you have no clue what a <tip> is, read the URL above.
>
> - Snip off unrelevant or uncommented parts of the email you're replying
> to. This will also cut down on the average oversea digest readers phone
> bill.
>
> - Have fun.
>
> Remember, fighting together to battle "TALKS" is the only way to win! So
> do your part! :)
>
> In all seriousness, please trim those posts and read the guidelines. We
> have a cool list here for a reason.. Thanks for doing your part and
> letting me not have to post bitchy emails like many other lists ;)
>
> If anyone has questions or comments they'd like to put to me directly,
> as always, feel free to drop me an email offlist and we'll chat..
>
> Also, if anyone has imports or imported vodka they'd like to put *in* me
> directly, as always, feel free to drop me a case at home and we'll be
> friends.. ;)
>
> .djc.