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Beginning today at about noon my time (GMT-8:00), the list will be on a
short break. I'll be traveling on business this week, and won't be able
to take my laptop along, so the next time I'll be able to distribute
messages to the list will be Friday, March 12.
In the meantime, messages sent to the list will not be lost, only delayed.
I would ask that everyone refrain from sending one-liners and personal
messages to the list. Though this should, of course, be common practice,
it will be a lot easier for me to catch up with the back log when I return
if there aren't a lot of inappropriate messages to sift through. I'd also
ask that participants take a few minutes during this time off to review
the list guidelines for proper formatting of submissions. There's been
a significant deterioration in this area over the past few months, which
means I just have to spend more of my time dealing with these issues.
The areas that are requiring the most attention these days are:
- Provide correct attribution for all quoted material
- Clearly mark all quoted material in the standard manner to
distinguish it from your response.
- Trim quoted material to just that portion required to give context
to your reply.
- Delete any signatures and headers from quoted material.
- Make sure quoted material and your response have line lengths less
than 75 characters.
- Present quoted material first, then your response. It is never,
ever appropriate to simply append a previous post to yours.
- Remove all special characters (diacritics, tabs, etc.)
- Make the subject line match exactly the message to which you are
responding. If you are quoting a previous message, the subject
line must be preserved even if the subject has drifted.
- Remove all special formatting - only plain text messages are accepted
(MIME encoding, styled text, or HTML format text are not allowed on
the list).
- Sign your message (signature follows your message).
I waste an incredible amount of time every single day dealing with these
issues, and I consider all of that effort unnecessary. These are basic
rules that have been around since the list was founded (five years ago this
week) and are directly derived from basic netiquette that's been around for
close to two decades now.
See the list guidelines for reference:
http://www.classical.net/music/policy.html
Thanks for your patience and cooperation.
Dave
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http://www.classical.net/
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