Posting guidelines

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Dear Members,

 

Most of you are doing an excellent job in the way that

you are

writing your messages. THANK YOU FOR FOLLOWING THE

GUIDELINES. Some

of you still need to be reminded to trim/delete all

unnecessary lines

below your message as suggested in guideline #2 below.

 

Moderating a group is a volunteer effort and takes

quite a bit of

time each day. Many moderated messages have to be

edited so that they

are more easily readable. Some are deleted because the

person is

trying to sell something or has not followed some of

the guidelines

below. Even when some selling is there, we allow advetising for books, CDs pertinenet to ayurveda as an exception.

 

 

We request each member to follow these guidlines while posting:

 

1] Be courteous. Refrain from personal judgment and

argumentative comments.

 

2] In replying to a message, trim or delete all

irrelevant old lines.

[if your new message can stand alone, delete

everything below your

message. If you believe the post that you are replying

to must remain

attached for some important reason, you may leave it

attached; or,

better, leave just a line or two attached with the

writer's name.

Also, below the messages are many lines of

administrative information

that should be deleted all the way to the bottom of

the page.]

 

If you are replying to daily digest, leave only

relevant message or just few lines of that message.

Often, moderator has to snip a big daily digest

properly to leave only relevant reference. Often the relevant

reference is delted by , in order to truncate the message. The subject title of relevant message may be copied and pasted into subject field, rather than Re:Digest No. xxxx.

 

has now improved to a "structured" daily digest. All the replies to

a particular message appear grouped together at one place to improve

redability. It also tells how many relevant replies have appeared so

far, so that you can check all for completeness. This grouping is

possible, only if original message is replied at group website rather

than by "reply" to message from daily digest. Keep subject line

unaltered. cannot recognize the reply structure then. Hence you

are requested to reply the messages at group website rather than

daily digest. When you visit group website you feel the "goup"

feeling, with members, old messages, files everything is available at

the same place just a click away. On the other hand, when you never

visit group website, you are just an onlooker, with less time for

interest in ayurveda. Use search facility offered by , to

see if your reply is already covered by someother member!

 

Replying from groupwebsite has one more advantage that advertising

junk does not trail in your message, as is normal in an email message.

 

Sending a clean message helps those who receive

"Individual Emails"

delivered to their inbox and those who receive the

"Daily Digest" of

the messages. So, please trim/delete the unnecessary

lines from your

post.

 

3] If the topic changes, change the subject line to

reflect the new

topic. Be specific in your subject line regarding what

you are

writing about. That way readers of daily digest know whether they are

interested in

opening the message. In daily digest, reader can skip to relevant

message, if subject line is interesting to him. Writing good title is also an art. Shorter title does not get truncated in message list depicted by .

 

If you just want to say "Thank You," it's best to send that privately to the person.

 

4] Avoid initiating off-topic (off theme of the

group)subjects

 

5] Avoid soliciting; delete your website URL if you

are selling on

that website. If your services attract a fee, then too the URL is

deemed commercial. Some people have an automatic signature

that includes

a website URL. Please delete that URL before sending

your post so

that a moderator doesn't have to do it for you. If the

website is

purely educational, then occasionally the URL may be

included. Similarly, the quotes by philosophers at

trailing end of the post should be removed. But if you

feel that some quote is very relevant to the post, you can

as well retain it. Such a quote is best emphasized in the opening of

your message itself.

 

6] Please read over your message and correct typos and

misspelled

words. Add capital letters and punctuation so that

your message can

be easily understood by the reader. Otherwise, the

moderator has to edit the post. It is better to

prepare a postin MS-Word first, run a spell/grammar

check and then copy, paste to . Now also offers

spell check for emails.

 

7) Since our group does not support attachments, copy

important part of attachments in main message itself. Further, please

refrain posting messages recived as replies to your postings in other

lists, as earlier correspondence is missing in this list.

Ayurvedaonline members can not get interest in your activities in

other lists. If you find a post on other list very useful to our

members, you may request the member who posted to re-post the message

to our list, after becoming a member at ayurveda. After all,

our membership is unrestricted, and messages are kept "public" for

benifit of all netizens.

 

Moderators will appreciate your cooperation.

Moderators