Hi Folks,
In the past week or so, submissions quoting the entirety of previously
posted material has become commonplace. EVERY RESPONSE to the query about
bee space has quoted the entirely of the original question. Please remember
the guidelines for submissions when submitting material to BEE-L.
It's been a while since the guideline for submission have been posted, so
I've included them below. Please take a moment to review the guidelines.
Sincerely,
Aaron Morris
Guidelines for BEE-L Submissions
1. Do not include excessive quotes of previous
submissions. If you must
quote previous postings, include only what is necessary
to make your
point. Submissions that include the entirety of
previous posts will be
rejected without comment or notice.
2. Submit your posts as TEXT ONLY! There are many
sub scribers
whose mailers will not interpret text markup languages
and to them
submissions which include markup characters (such as
HTML) appear
as gibberish. Submissions to BEE-L must be in the
lowest common
denominator for all subscribers, which is TEXT ONLY!
Posts
submitted to BEE-L in markup languages will be rejected
without notice.
3. Binary file attachments are not allowed on BEE-L.
Similar to markup
languages, many subscribers have mailers not able to
decipher binary file
attachments (such as MS Word attachments). Submissions
with binary
attachments are never approved by the list moderators,
most times
without notice. Suggestions for binary attachments
include deciphering
them at your end to include in the text of your
submission or making them
available at your site and advertising their
availability on BEE-L. Please
verify your URLs. If detected, submissions with
invalid or nonexistant
URLs will not be approved, possibly without notice.
4. Do not send personal responses to the entire list.
If Bea Keepr posts
something to the list that inspires you to write to
Bea, DO NOT send your
personal response to BEE-L, send it to Bea! Only send
to the list that
which you want read by everyone. Submissions to the
list that appear to be
personal responses are rarely approved by the list
moderators, often
without notice.
5. Trolling (name calling, baiting, incivility) is not
tol erated. Heated
discussions are allowed, after all we're beekeepers and
may not always
agree. But as Rodney King put it, "Can't we all just
get along?" This is a
grey area up to the discretion of the moderators, but
offending submissions
will be rejected without notice.
6. Do not send LISTSERV service requests to the list.
Requests of
LISTSERV for list services must be sent to:
[log in to unmask] LISTSERV service
requests sent to
BEE-L are never approved by the list moderators, no
notice is given and
the requested service is not provided.
7. Submissions to BEE-L must be related to the
"Informed Discussion of
Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology". SPAM is NEVER
approved!
Furthermore, submissions must be "Informed"! BEE-L is
not intended to
be a substitute for beginning texts on keeping bees.
If your question is a
basic beekeeping question, it has probably been
asked and answered
on BEE-L before, perhaps many times. Answers to
frequently asked
questions may be found by searching the BEE-L
archives. Submissions
of frequently asked questions may be approved or not,
with or without
notice. Approved frequently asked questions are often
met with cries of
"Search the Archives!". Cries of "Search the
Archives!" are sometimes
approved to drive home the point, but rarely.
8. Submissions to BEE-L should not contain
misinformation. Although
slow to admit it, the moderators do not know it all.
However, blatant
misinformation is rejected with out notice. Realizing
there is a fine line
between new, thought provoking ideas and
misinformation the moderators
strive for leniency in their judgment and prefer to err
on the side of thought
provoking ideas. Reader beware that if you read it
here it ain't necessarily
so!
9. BEE-L is not a marketplace. Product reviews are
welcome. Product
announcements are tolerated. Repeated announcements
and marketing are
less welcome proportionately to their frequency.
Advertisements may be
rejected without notice.
10. Lastly, long signature files are discouraged. A
guide line of five lines
maximum is suggested. Life histories and driving
directions to your
doorstep or place of business are strongly discouraged
and are often
rejected without notice.
The BEE-L moderators and subscribers thank you in
advance for
adhering to these guidelines. We hope you find your
BEE-L experience
informative, engaging, educational and most importantly,
fun!
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