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  -- Guidelines for Posting and Replying to thelist
     by William Anderson, Garrett Coakley and whoever wrote this before.

     Last updated: v1.0 2004-08-01
     This posting:      2004-08-02

  ** PLEASE READ THIS DOCUMENT BEFORE POSTING TO THIS MAILING LIST!

  -- General Information

  Welcome to thelist.  This mailing list is intended for *professional* 
  Web workers: designers, webmasters, programmers, what have you. 
  Anything that relates to Web development is up for discussion.

  The list is unmoderated (though monitored), and is maintained and 
  supported by volunteers.

  Individuals who post to the list hold the copyright to their own 
  posts.
  
  -- Read this document online
  
  The latest version of this document can always be found at
  http://lists.evolt.org/?content=listinfo

  -- Discussion list guidelines

   1. Respect each other. Diversity in Web development is not only 
      tolerated but encouraged. Argument and debate are fine. Character 
      digs and personal attacks are not. You are responsible for what 
      you write. Those who cannot be civil will be removed from the list 
      of subscribers and will not be permitted to return.

   2. Limited off-topic posts are fine; however they must be labelled 
      [OT] in the subject line. Also, we ask that you "pay" for off-topic
      posts by including a Web tip that you find useful. Example:

          <tip>
          Include META tags in all of your pages for better search 
          engine placement.
          </tip> 

      Please stay consistent with the <tip></tip> tags, so that our Tip
      Harvester at http://lists.evolt.org/harvest/ can extract them for
      the archive. If you want to be extra helpful, your opening tag 
      could be formatted:

          <tip type="META Tags" author="Your Name">
          Include META tags in all of your pages for better search 
          engine placement.
          </tip> 

   3. To the best of your ability, keep posts short.

   4. Keep your subject lines specific, as many people decide what posts 
      to read from the subject line. "Help!," "What am I doing wrong?," 
      and "Arrraugh" are not acceptable subject lines.

      If an ongoing discussion drifts from the initial subject, please 
      change the subject line to reflect the new subject. For example, 
      "e-commerce solutions" becomes "problem clients (was: e-commerce 
      solutions)."

   5. When responding to a post, delete all information that is not 
      strictly necessary. This includes the evolt.org tag line and .sig 
      files. Delete anything you're not specifically responding to.

      We also ask that you do not 'top post', that is, place your reply 
      before the original message.

      Top posting destroys the flow of a thread, with replies appearing 
      before the text being replied to. It also encourages apathy 
      towards trimming the replies, leading to monster cascaded thread 
      messages and makes life more diffficult for those subscribed to 
      the digest version.

      Some excellent links regarding good netiquette on mailing lists:

          * Mailing List Etiquette FAQ
            http://tinyurl.com/4oy8b
            
          * How to Write Effective Mailing List Email
            http://tinyurl.com/4vaw3
            
          * RFC 1855 - Netiquette Guidelines
            http://tinyurl.com/49eqr
            
          * Why is Bottom-posting better than Top-posting 
            (Usenet focused, but just as applicable to large user base 
             mailing lists)
            http://tinyurl.com/n9cd
            
          * The art of quoting 
            (again, Usenet focused but a worthwhile read)
            http://tinyurl.com/pt1i
            
   6. When responding to a post, please make it clear who you're 
      responding to. Not everyone is going to remember who the original 
      sender was.
      
   7. Don't post urban legends, virus alerts or humorous forwards. Please.

   8. Don't post copyrighted material. If you think an article would be 
      helpful to others on the list, provide a link.

   9. You must ask permission if you want to forward or otherwise 
      reproduce a post from a member of the list.