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On Sun, 29 Oct 2000 10:17:49 -0500, Jan Rifkinson wrote these
comments about 'List rules (was: Re: Placing subjects in introductions)':
JR>>> I believe that rules are *always* open to discussion in a
JR>>> courteous & constructive dialogue unless we are living in
JR>>> something less than a democracy on this list.
This is not very practical and can lead to unnecessary and long threads,
as this one for example, on the list. It's very important that the
membership realize that the list rules were not created to intimidate or
stifle participation. They were actually created to help nurture a
peaceful and productive atmosphere on this list, an atmosphere where
*everyone*, whether expert, newby, techy or otherwise may participate.
Some of the rules are not black and white ones and do require some
judgement on the part of the moderators.
These list rules were not pulled out of a hat but were carefully
constructed. A lot of them come from the RFC's that discuss e-mail and
usenet netiquette, netiquette guidelines that were formulated after many
years of experience using this media for exchanging messages. There's no
sense in reinventing the wheel and realising that, for example
'appropriately trimming text is the coureous thing to do'.
If every newcomer were to challenge the list rules, we would need a
separate list for just that. I'm quite happy to take any queries about
the reasoning behind some of the more seemingly unreasonable list rules,
but off-list with it .....Please! Let's get on with discussing The Bat!.
:-)
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