It's actually good to see someone up on the soapbox and so willing to step off. :-)
PROFESSIONAL ETIQUETTE FOR REPLYING TO LIST MESSAGES <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01817.html> 1. DELETE OR EDIT PREVIOUS CONTENT When replying DELETE all of previous post OR EDIT previous post to a bare minimum of words that relate to your reply. Mostly this is a problem for people who read the digest. They have to scroll through pages and pages of quoted material. An extreme example was a message with ONE new word and 729 quoted words. "Think Green" with your words? 2. CONTACT THE PERSON NOT THE ENTIRE LIST Send thank-you's, "me too", "I agree", and personal questions/requests to the INDIVIDUAL. The individual's information is in the email header. ADDITIONAL PROBLEMS FOR PEOPLE WITH YAHOO and MSN We're seeing a number of emails that are NOT accepted from people with Yahoo (mostly) and MSN (lesser). This happens for a couple reasons: 1. No first and last name. Sometimes people only identify themselves by [EMAIL PROTECTED] EVERYONE should make sure they have first and last name listed with their "Reply To" address (you can make a name up if you want). Spammers often don't list a name so this is step one to make sure your email gets through. 2. Failure to delete previous footers. When people are careless with replies, there will often be 4-5 MOSAIC footers along with a Yahoo footer or two like "Refinance your mortgage..." Our spam software looks at this and is NOT happy because it should be a Yahoo footer, but it doesn't act like one with all the other footers surrounding it. Message is discarded. We have to keep these tasks automated by our server to survive the glut of spam. If you are looking to switch email accounts, consider GMail - it seems to work well with our server and they don't place advertising footers on messages (yet?). Another option is a yearly $15 donation to The Literacy Workshop (host of MOSAIC), you get a free email account - http://www.literacyworkshop.org/memberships.htm. I guarantee that you'll have no trouble communicating with the MOSAIC list. Keith Mack [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.literacyworkshop.org -----Original Message----- From: Patti Whatley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Would someone please post the posting rules again? It is very frustrating to have to scroll through the entire previous digest every time you want to get to the next message. Not to mention the wasted inbox space. Stepping off of my soapbox now. _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
