List-owner Bill Denton asked Mario and I to 'keep an eye on
things'
while he went off somewhere quiet to dispose of a few bodies
of
recidivist miscreant posters.
I've also been away for a while, but now I'm back in front of
a keyboard
I think I need to offer a general reminder to everyone about
posting, to
our newer members who may not yet have learned how things
work on this
list, and also to members of longer-standing who ought to
know better by
now, and seem to sometimes hit the 'reply' button when they
really ought
to go for a coffee instead.
Can you all PLEASE note the following:
EDIT the post to which you are replying as much as
possible.
Leave only what is needed of the original post for others to
make sense
of your reply. No-one wants or needs to read the same post
six times!
If your mailer programme automatically apends the post to
which you are
responding below your own, please be considerate enough to
take a few
seconds to delete it.
NO FLAMING.
Insults and personal attacks are not tolerated here.
If anyone wants to swap insults, do it via personal email or
go find a
newsgroup. Under this category we probably ought also to
include
'trolling', which means the posting of deliberately
provocative material
in order to cause mischief (ie wind people up with the
intention of
starting a flame war).
Apart from that, I think the old man on the mountain had it
just about
right: 'do as thou wilt shall be the extent of the
law'.
Carry on enjoying yourselves,
Eddie Duggan
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