ADMIN: Getting back on topic and posting rules reminder

[TECHWR-L Administrators <admin -at- raycomm -dot- com>]

Gang,

As you know, technical writing covers a wide range of activities.
That said, a list about technical communication issues is not
the place for discussion of:
* playing video games at work
* the dumbing of America, bogus exams from 106 years ago, or
  any other urban legends
* nits (the grammatical kind or the lice kind)
* Outlook message filtering -- read the online help or post
  a question to an Outlook tech support forum.
* "cute" or "funny" offhand personal comments to others on the
  list. 
  
Please, it's time to get back to technical communication issues.

Thanks,
Eric
ejray -at- raycomm -dot- com
TECHWR-L Listowner





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POSTING RULES FOR TECHWR-L (for Technical Communication issues)
     Revised 21 April 2001

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. 

In addition to these rules, all users agree to abide by 
the TECHWR-L Terms of Service, a copy of which is available at 
http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/policy.html.

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     CHECK THE ARCHIVES BEFORE POSTING! Archives are available at
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     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
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       designed to be "forwarded to everyone you know" to this
       list. 
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     * Direct all commentary about this message to my
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