ADMIN: Info, Unsolicited Email, and Rules

[Eric Ray <ejray -at- raycomm -dot- com>]

Gang,

First, for all of you who have received solicitations from a 
Robert/Bob Otoka from Micro Tech Professionals as a result 
of your TECHWR-L Postings, I'm sorry. The offender has been 
permanently removed from the list, and we're pursuing other 
action as well. The offender had been a TECHWR-L subscriber
for at least a year, and certainly _knows_ what expected 
standards of behavior are with regard to culling addresses
from the TECHWR-L archives...he just chose to abuse the
service. 

(My personal opinion is that you'd be better off
looking for a contract agency among those who post ads to
the TECHWR-L Premium Announcement list or who post jobs
to Employment Central on the Web site, rather than using an
someone who has demonstrated a willingness to disregard 
contracts and rules in order to find new clients.) 

We know that you didn't subscribe to TECHWR-L so your email
address could be picked up and used against your wishes,
and we do everything we can to stop it. Contact me offline
with questions. 

For a quick reminder of the Rules, Responsibilities, and
general administrivia, just send an email to 
send-techwr-l-welcome -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com
and you'll get the latest version back in email. 

In other news, please take a few minutes to read through the 
rules (below) and think about them when you post your 
next message.

Thanks!
Eric

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POSTING RULES FOR TECHWR-L
     Revised 1 June 2000

I strongly encourage everyone to read and understand these
rules before posting to TECHWR-L. TECHWR-L has nearly
5000 subscribers and many more readers, so it is necessary
to maintain a fairly tight definition of acceptable behavior. 
Any list member may be removed from the list, at the 
listowner's discretion, for flagrant or repeated infractions. 
Additionally, if you are abusive to the listowner or other 
list members, you may be removed from the list. 

Send all announcements, job ads, and similar messages to
ejray -at- raycomm -dot- com -dot-  

     CHECK THE ARCHIVES BEFORE POSTING! Archives are available at
     http://lists.raycomm.com/techwhirl/ and at
     http://www.documentation.com/techwrit/techwrit-l.htm 
     and at http://www.deja.com/ and at http://www.reference.com/.

     WHAT TO POST
     * If it is about technical communication and of general
       interest, post it.
     * If it is about technical communication and original and
       humorous, post it.

     WHAT NOT TO POST
     * If it doesn't clearly and directly relate to technical 
       communication, don't post it.
     * If it is an ad of any sort, don't post it. Contact 
       ejray -at- raycomm -dot- com about the right way to advertise to 
       TECHWR-L.  
     * If it relates to _language use_ but not technical
       communication, it probably isn't appropriate. 
       Don't post it.
     * If it relates to _computer use_ but not technical
       communication, it probably isn't appropriate. 
       Don't post it.
     * If it continues an irrelevant thread in any way
       (rebuttal, rebuke, rerun, revision, remark), don't
       post it.
     * If it is a personal message to a single subscriber,
       don't post it. Even if mail to that person bounces.
     * If you aren't sure, don't post it.
     * If it is a test message, do not post it. Ever. Contact
       the listowner if you have problems posting or with your
       subscription, or send a test message to 
       techwr-l-test -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com to check your mail settings. 
     * If it is something cute, interesting, or funny that
       you found on the Internet (e.g. Dr. Seuss on Tech
       Writing, origin of spam), don't post it. I assure
       you that most readers have seen it already.

     OTHER
     * Check your facts on anything you post. Do not under
       any circumstances post virus warnings or anything else
       designed to be "forwarded to everyone you know" to this
       list. 
     * Do not directly attack anyone for anything on the list.
       Take issue with ideas, not personalities, and do
       NOT point out grammatical, spelling, or usage errors.
       This forum is not the place to exercise editorial
       frustration. 
     * Please make sure your E-mail address is included in
       the body of the message you post to the list.
     * If responses are sent to you--not to the whole list--please
       summarize and post the entire summary back to the list. 
       A summary should include attributions so others can pick 
       up conversations offline if necessary with original posters. 
       When you send a summary back to the list, use the word
       "SUMMARY" as the first word of the "Subject" line."
     * Direct all commentary about this message to my
       address, not the list.


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