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23624: (announce) Corbett: New list procedures coming....
>From Bob Corbett (corbetre@webster.edu)
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(What is above the line above -- the subject line and my name/e-mail
will soon be the MANDATORY form of posts. Please see below)
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Folks,
After writing to the list some weeks ago about list changes I was
contemplating, many of you wrote of your preferences and about ideas you
had. After reading all of those I am going to try to hand in and not
change anything ESSENTIAL, still posting all that I do.
However, in order to make that easier on ME, as well as for LIST MEMBERS,
I am going to impose some much stricter rules on FORM OF POSTINGS.
I am most concerned with the subject line of the posts. That often costs
me lots of time when people just use older subject lines or none at all.
Thus I will soon be imposing the following form for posts. (I would urge
you to begin using this NOW, but I will still posts items in current forms
until I formally notify you of the change.)
Each subject line must being with the type of post in brackets. The
categories I will be asking you to use are:
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pub (published in book, article, newspaper, magazine, or on a web page)
must be accompanied by author, date and source
reply (a reply to some previous post -- identification of that post
must be given
announce (an announcement of an event or occasion)
inquiry (asking a question about Haiti to the list)
seeking (trying to make contact with someone)
discuss (submitter-written opinion piece on Haiti)
report (submitter-written report of news or experiences)
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Thus the subject line will have to have
1. (sort of post) in brackets.
2. poster or e-mail or anonymous in reasonable situations
3. description of post
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When I once make that form mandatory -- very soon -- I will simply delete
any post that comes without that form.
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Secondly,
the first line of the post itself MUST be the e-mail address of the poster
(or anonymous if appropriate).
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With this change I think I can continue to post all the variety of posts I
currently do.
However, I am open for suggestions of the KINDS of post I have people name
in the subject line. I don't want the list to be too long, and am worried
that there already may be too many.
Please let me know if you have an ideas about that.
I would urge you to begin using this form now, and I will make it
mandatory after trying it out a while.
Thanks,
Bob Corbett