Vortex-L Rules:
1. $10/yr donation
2. NO SNEERING
3. KEEP MESSAGES UNDER 40K
4. DON'T QUOTE ENTIRE MESSAGES NEEDLESSLY
5. DON'T CC OTHER LIST SERVERS
6. NO SPAMMING
1. If VORTEX-L proves very useful or interesting to you, please consider
making a $10US/yr donation to help cover operating expenses. If you
cannot afford this, please feel free to participate anyway. If you
would like to give more, please do! Direct your check to the
moderator, address above.
2. NO SNEERING. Ridicule, derision, scoffing, and ad-hominem is
banned. "Pathological Skepticism" is banned (see the link.) The
tone
here should be one of legitimate disagreement and respectful debate.
Vortex-L is a big nasty nest of 'true believers' (hopefully
having some
tendency to avoid self-deception,) and skeptics may as well leave in
disgust. But if your mind is open and you wish to test "crazy"
claims
rather than ridiculing them or explaining them away, hop on board!
MORE (please read.)
(For a good analysis of the negative aspects of skepticism, see
ZEN AND THE ART OF DEBUNKERY at http://amasci.com/pathskep.html)
3. Small email files please. The limit is set to 40K right now, those
exceeding the limit will be forwarded to Bill Beaty. Some
members are on limited service, or have to pay for received email.
Diagrams and graphics can be mailed to me or John Logajan and posted
on our webpages for viewing.
4. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE: when you reply to a message DON'T include the
ENTIRE message in your reply. Always edit it a bit and delete
something. The entire message should only be included if: (A) you
are replying to a message that is many days old, or (B) you are
doing
a point-by-point reply to many parts of a message. Many vortex
users
must pay by the kilobyte for receiving message traffic, and large
amounts of redundant messages are irritating and expensive. So,
when including a quoted message in your reply, ALWAYS DELETE
SOMETHING,
the more the better.
5. Please do not include any other email list in the TO line or the CC
line of your messages to vortex-L. In the past this has caused
storms of "thread leakage" between lists and redundant messages as
replies from subscribers go to both lists. It's OK to manually
forward
mail from other lists to vortex-L, as long as the TO line and CC
line
has only vortex-L and no other list.
6. "Junkmail" email advertising will not be tolerated. While not
illegal
yet, widecasting of junk-email ads to listservers is against the
Unwritten Rules of the Internet. Anyone who spams vortex-L with
junkmail
will be referred to the Internet Vigilante Justice team. ;)
Occasional on-topic advertising by long-time vortex-L users is
acceptable.
- Bill B.
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
