[vip_students] Re: Moderator:List Rules!

  • From: "Edel Carey" <careyedel@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:29:36 +0100

Hi Paul

These are good.  Following on from Eleanors suggestions, it may be worth 
emailing new members with these guidelines offlist.  We need you here so lets 
keep it all going.  Its a fantastic service that I'm glad to be a part of 
eventhough I'm mostly on the receiving end of information.

Edel..
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Paul Traynor 
  To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 7:17 PM
  Subject: [vip_students] Moderator:List Rules!



  Hi All,

  I was asked to send in a mail detailing the list rules. Here you are, I hope 
it may help to keep things on-topic.
  Please note, I have borrowed some of the rules from another list as they were 
well written and  do help keep order on that list.
  The rules below are written up to help  keep mails on-topic. It is I know 
impossible to keep to the rules completely but all I ask is that you try and 
use the list wisely.  I am not going to unsubscribe anyone right away, in fact 
I don't want to have to do this but I personally set up this list for us all to 
get on and I ask that people understand this. It is a labor of love for me and 
I hope you all also.

  Paul.

  1. This list is to help both vision impaired and I.T trainers work together 
to help and enhance each others knowledge. 

  2. All messages pertaining to technology from Braille to computers to mobile 
devices etc is fair game.

  3. While instructions are very useful when they are written up in a step by 
step format they can have the tendency to become a dependency and people do not 
explorer problems for themselves and try and make a useful diagnosis leading to 
a solution, please try to  experiment and  take notes of your successes and 
failings.
  If you have no success then lets look at it together.

  4. Keep all useful notes posted to the list. Make separate folders for the 
different topics, such as a folder for phone info, one for windows, another for 
brailed or tutorials, whatever the case may be and you will have a valuable 
resource there.

  5. If a new user comes on to the list looking for a solution to his or her 
problem and you know this issue was covered before then forward them on a copy 
of the saved notes "off-list", to avoid  the new user getting lots of mails, 
inform the list that you have done so in a short  sentence or two.

  6. When sending in a query about a problem, give as much detail as possible 
to the rest of the list and try not to break up the information over several 
emails as this can be the major cause of overload on a list like this. I do 
appreciate for those who are not over familiar with their computers and what 
they can do with them this might be asking a lot but just try and be as 
complete as possible.

  7. No smart comments on the list or gentle hints which are designed to  have 
a go at anyone else is appropriate and those continuing to do this will be 
taken off.

  8. The discussion of anything illegal is absolutely forbidden, this is not a 
high tech swap shop or anything of that nature at all. This means that goods 
and or services will not be bought or sold using this forum. If you know a 
given subject is off topic then don't post it. Simply placing off topic in the 
subject line does not make it all right. Cross-posting is not permitted, and 
members should only post in the following manner: 

  A. Using the TO: field with only one list address. 
  b. The SUBJECT: field should be short and to the point without including any 
member names. 

  The reason for this is that in cases where people setup their message rules 
to go by the To: field often times such rules get fowled up and in effect do 
not work properly. 
  c. cross posting might allow you to reach many lists at the same time but the 
fact is such a post might not be on topic for each and every list. This 
practice does nothing but clutter up such lists.

  10. Lastly please no jokes, virus warnings,, safety tips, or pleas to help 
dying kids, should ever be forwarded to the list. 
  Also, No auto responders are to be used on this list! Those who use auto 
responders for vacations and so forth must make sure that this list is not 
included. Any person who sends an auto response message will be removed! 






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