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The Skraeling Althing Email-List (Skrael List)
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Netiquette on the Skrael List
- Just as with anything new, such as driving a car or shooting a gun, it is a very good idea to get some
kind of instruction on both how your particular mail program, news reader, or web browser works, and
what constitutes "good manners" in the wonderful world of the Internet. I can't hope to educate anyone
fully on the subject in this brief message, but here are a few good points to make life on a mailing
list a little bit easier for you and everyone else. More extensive treatises on this topic can be
found by searching such sites as "Yahoo" and "Alta Vista" for the word "Netiquette".
- Always check the email address that appears in the To: line when replying to a message.
The list is set up to send replies to messages back to the SENDER'S address only. If you want
everyone on the list to read the message, choose the 'REPLY TO ALL' option of your email program
or change the To: line to send the message to: skrael@skraeling.sca.org.
- Keep signature files to a minimum - 4 lines is the commonly accepted maximum.
- Turn off MIME-compliant and/or HTML encoding if you are posting messages from a web browser - it appends
duplicate, unreadable binary files or hard-to-read HTML code to your posts which only wastes bandwidth,
space and other people's time.
- Make sure that your text editor will wrap your sentences at 70 characters per line; this is optimal,
leaving enough space to quote someone's post without it getting horribly misconfigured.
- Do not advertise your business, unless it is in direct response to a specific query or unless your
business is strictly Middle Ages oriented. Minimal signature file advertising is acceptable.
- Learn how to use your mail program's text editor! Trim down the included text of the message to which
you are replying to the minimum needed to make a coherent response. Repeating the entire text of a
message just to include a one-line reply is a waste of bandwidth.
- When the topic of a thread changes, make a point of changing the Subject: line to reflect the
change. Standard methodology is to say: Arglebargle (was re: Hoohah).
- If a topic devolves to a point where only 2 or 3 people are participating, or if the
substance becomes little more than in-jokes that nobody else gets, take the conversation
off the list to private email.
- You don't HAVE to reply to each and every message that gets sent to you from the list.
- If you haven't been keeping up with things on the list for a couple of days (or more), read all
the messages through first; the point that you make, or the answer you give, may have already
been supplied by somebody else.
- Personally, I don't think it is appropriate to post other people's email addresses to the list;
if someone makes a request for someone else's email address, mail it to them privately, not to the list.
- DON'T TYPE EVERYTHING IN CAPITALS - TO MOST PEOPLE THIS LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE SHOUTING!
- Please observe copyright laws!
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