jammer99 de-lurking. Some of you have managed to violate more than one rule of this list a day for a while. How 'bout no more quoting entire messages, and no more fancy-schmancy formatted email that can't be read by those of us using the digest. Now, re-read and look at yourself. Archives of the previous incarnation of the e-gold-list are available here: http://www.mail-archive.com/e-gold-list@free-market.net/ http://www.free-market.net/features/list-archives/e-gold-list/threads.html If you ever want to remove yourself from this mailing list, please use the web interface at: http://www.e-gold.com/unsecure/lists.html You might want to unsubscribe some day, so please save this message. In fact, its generally a good idea to save any message with the word "welcome" in the subject for this reason. A properly directed unsubscribe request is discreet and silent; however, an unsubscribe request sent to any mailing list will cause you to appear clueless before a potentially large number of people. In the unlikely event you have gotten this far without knowing what e-gold is please visit: http://www.e-gold.com/unsecure/qanda.html e-gold list rules: ****************** Any comments, questions, opinions, or advertising (more than twice a year would be excessive) related to e-gold are fair game on this list. However, please follow these rules when posting: 1. Plain text format only: * People tend to find HTML format e-mail (especially on mailing lists) annoying for various reasons, including its comparative bulkiness, its comparative slowness, and the display of formatting commands in mail programs that are not capable of handling this format. * However, the main reason to stick to plain text is to keep the digest version of the e-gold list readable. The digest is plain text only; therefore, recipients see HTML formatting commands rather than the result you intended whether or not their mail programs are capable of handling HTML. This is distracting and makes your posts less readable than if they were originally posted in plain text format. 2. No e-mail attachments. Instead post files of interest at your website or a publicly accessible FTP site and provide a URL in your post. * There is the strong likelihood that some (in some cases most) subscribers will not have the software necessary to view your attachment as you intended. * Again, the main reason to avoid attachments is to keep the digest version of e-gold list readable. The digest is plain text only; therefore, recipients will see hundreds of lines of gibberish rather than the result you intended. Hundreds of lines of gibberish cause issues of the digest to be published with very little meaningful content. 3. Cite only those portion of previous posts pertinent to the points you wish to make or the questions you wish to ask. If it's not worth your time to make this effort, then don't post. 4. Off-topic commercial posts are Spam. Spam is anathema on the e-gold list. Spammers will be unsubscribed without notice. 5. Before posting, ask yourself: "Is my post likely to be of interest or value to a broad range of people from around the world who are interested in the topic of e-gold?" If in doubt, please don't post. To illustrate: Good post topics: * e-gold related business ideas * Announcing that your business accepts e-gold (more than once a year would be too often) * schemes to get large well known businesses to accept e-gold * Questions about using e-gold that you still have after *thoroughly* perusing the e-gold website, especially the FAQ. * Suggestions for the e-gold folks after you are confident that you are sufficiently clueful to offer an opinion ("lurk" awhile on any list you join). * e-gold items in the news (yea!) * announcements from e-gold Bad post topics: * Anything not related to the topic of e-gold. I'll cut you a little slack here, just don't hang yourself with it ;) * Religious stuff. Nothing against whatever your religion is, but this is not the place for it. * Political stuff. 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