Re: How to behave yourself on mailing lists

Al Gilman (asgilman@access.digex.net)
Sat, 30 Mar 1996 12:01:53 -0500 (EST)

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1. A WebPage is nice, but it is not sufficient. There really
are people who have Mail access to the Internet and not Web
Access. What you need to say in a ListMembers Handbook served by
the file retrieval function of your MLM is mostly the same as you
would put in a WebPage, but not really the same. A set of two
documents is what I would recommend. This, of course, is a
function of the list. For the lynx-dev list 99-44/100% of the
list subscribership have a Lynx web-browser.

2. I recommend that you take this request to the
list-managers@GreatCircle.com list; if anybody knows of a good
ListMember handbook that exists now, they would likely be on that
list. The tenor of the discussion on that list is that the
list managers understand your problem, have not reduced an answer
to a FAQ. Part of the answer is an advertising campaign for the
ListMember Handbook that is a tolerable overhead added to the
list traffic, as in a .sig for the list or a periodic posting.

3. On list-managers, I brag about the faq-maintainers "welcome"
message as an ultra-civil ListMember Handbook, BTW.

Your fellow-sufferer,

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Al Gilman			http://access.digex.net/~asgilman
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note that "How to get off this list" is a FAQ on the lynx-dev list...

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