At 6:55 PM -0400 28/11/2000, K Street wrote:
>> - We sign our messages with our name and e-mail address.
>> - We keep subject lines appropriate to the contents of the message.
>> - We DO keep attributions correctly assigned to the original poster.
>> - We do NOT send terse, one line replies.
>> - If our reply is more appropriately directed only at the original poster,
>> we don't send it to the entire list.
>> - If our message is funny, frivolous, humourous, or is generally silly in
>> nature, we add a "Silly/Humor" flag to the subject line so others can
>> identify it easily.
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>Great flaming salamanders!! I've violated every rule mentioned above at
>various times, especially the one about e-mail addresses. Heck, I've
>*never* used a sig line with an address in it! Is this a major breach of
>protocol?
Not really. We sign with out names but email addresses I think are
basically guaranteed by the medium, aren't they? I consider the name and
email at the top as a "signature" of sorts. Sometimes the latter two are
broken on purpose. For example, my interrogating John about why he reads SF
was in the hopes of starting a larger dialogue (aha, and Willy took the
bait). As for the humorous thing, well . . . if it's not self-evident, a
smily is helpful but nobody really flags emails as "silly", and I only
remember rare instances when it HAS been done.
Gord
