Hi all Greetings to new members and welcome aboard. Hi Fred, good to see you made it. Apologies for not posting for a while but my calculating machine has been undergoing extensive re-adjustment in order to reduce the annoying effects of a pervasive virus called Windows98. On 15 May 99, at 11:11, Grant Gregerson wrote: > Hope I'm not breaking any rules here by making my initial foray > into MOQ-land. On 15 May 99, at 16:56, Jeff and Joyce Phillips wrote: > Hi, everyone-- > Please excuse the relative ignorance of this post, as I just joined in > last evening. On 15 May 99, at 22:12, Bob Wallace wrote: > Jeff and Joyce Phillips: > Believe it or not, I only got here a week before you did. As far as I'm > concerned, anything is open to discussion. How others feel, I can't > speak for them. Personally I try to have a sense of humor, even if it > may not work. I'm always interested in what others have to say. I keep meaning to post the CHARTER AND RULES at a set time every month, but as each new month arrives my brain goes on holiday and forgets to leave a forwarding address, so they get posted whenever it makes it back and settles down. Anyway, to reduce confusion and clarify the posting position for new members to the list I've attached our CHARTER AND RULES. These can also be found on the MOQ site. They are intended mainly as a guide to etiquette, to keep the conversation as near to it's intended purpose as possible and to provide an equal basis for all to enjoy and participate in a superb and worthwhile system of thought - the MOQ. As the number of members increases (which translates, hopefully, into contributions to the list) it becomes increasingly important to observe what few rules there are. They're not rigidly or ruthlessly applied as it's better to just rely on the good-will, common sense and recognition of Quality of contributing members. Please read through the following Charter and Rules. Enjoy. Horse [EMAIL PROTECTED] MOQ_DISCUSS Administrator ***************************************************** MOQ_DISCUSS CHARTER The MOQ_DISCUSS mailing list exists to provide a general and free- ranging forum for the discussion of Robert M. Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality. The MOQ_DISCUSS mailing list is an unmoderated mailing list. Members should observe the Rules of the list in order that discussions can be conducted in in a civilized and reasonably courteous manner. Members are encouraged to become involved in dialogue and debate but are requested to refrain from flaming and abusive behaviour of all kinds. Members of MOQ_DISCUSS are free to initiate a new discussion or topic by posting a message announcing the new topic or with a Subject line identifying the new topic. Members of MOQ_DISCUSS are not required to participate. Members can be active, temporarily inactive or permanent lurkers. If it becomes necessary to remove a member from the MOQ_DISCUSS list for persistent disregard for the rules then this will only be carried out after reminders and warnings have been issued and reasons given. This will hopefully be an extremely rare occurrence. The Charter and Rules of MOQ_DISCUSS are subject to addition or modification under the guidance of the list administrator. Any additions or modifications will be posted to the list with reasons given. MOQ_DISCUSS RULES 1) As a minimum requirement for joining the MOQ_DISCUSS mailing list members must have read Lila by Robert M. Pirsig. 2) All topics and discussions must be relevant to the Metaphysics of Quality in general or some particular aspect of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance or Lila. 3) Each member should limit the number of posts they submit to a maximum of four per day. 4) Members should reproduce only the relevant parts of any previous message to which they are responding. 5) Contributors should reproduce the Subject line of the thread/discussion to which they are replying. 6) Where possible, posts should be restricted to plain text - no HTML, Rich Text (RTF) or other formats should be used. 7) Posts may not contain attachments, gifs or other documents except by arrangement with the list administrator. MOQ_DISCUSS should not be used as a file transfer or document exchange service. Use FTP or the Web (put your file/document on the Web and mail the list its URL). 8) Members should refrain from swearing, using offensive language and personal attacks on other members. Abuse, in any form, will not be tolerated. *********************************************** Horse [EMAIL PROTECTED] MOQ_DISCUSS Administrator MOQ Online Homepage - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ Unsubscribe - http://www.moq.org/md/index.html MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
