On Jul 30, 2007, at 11:40 AM, Chris Mason wrote:
Tom
In the early days of my using the list I quickly encountered the
problem of the rejection of a post so carefully and painstakingly
constructed. I was informed by some kind person - trying to give
credit on the basis of feeble memory it may have been John Giltner
- that I needed to discard the three lines starting "For IBM-
MAIN ..." which the system slaps onto the bottom of each
distributed post.
As long as I do this, only some excessively verbose posts of mine -
caused possibly by excessive quoting of some, one hopes, relevant
technical material I happened to have created over the years and
had the wit to retain - fall foul of the IBM-MAIN system - in
transit that is!
It's possible this point is covered in the FAQ to which you were
referred but, taking a quick, glance I didn't spot it.
Chris Mason
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Chris,
I find that a lot, some "rules" that are semi undocumented . IBM
seems to be bullied around on here for not documenting items, the
list owner should, IMO, document such things. In fact I have given up
trying to find such rules as they seem to be applied at times rather
non-uniformly. Darren, IMO has gotten better over the years in
enforcing some rules other times it seeming is dependent on who
"bends" the rules. I will leave it at that as I am sure there will be
a barrage of comments.
Ed
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