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Debbie Levitt [webmaster@frenz.com] and
Heidi Tandy [heidi@frenz.com] are the only administrators of this mailing list. their main job is to promote happy flowing discussion and to make sure the policies in this FAQ and the "more info" page are being adhered to. they will NOT be ruling with iron keyboards, but do plan to step in when necessary to make sure that way-off-topic threads are ended and that EVERYONE has a positive experience on the list. if you post in violation of the rules, you may recieve an email from them asking you to refrain from making those kinds of posts in the future. if you continue to break the same rule, after multiple warnings, the admins may start reviewing your posts before they go to the list, although your list-reading ability will not be affected.
don't forget that your posts are public (seen by the list and then as part of the archive), so you may not want to say anything that's read by lots of people and then sitting on a website for eternity that you really wish you hadn't said. if you wouldn't say it to all of our faces while we all had coffee together live in "real" life, then please don't post it.
all frenz-related questions are welcome, including those from people who have not read the FAQ, any websites, or certain books.
discussions and suggestions about rules and policies for this mailing list should contain the word "policy" in the subject line so that uninterested readers can easily avoid those threads.
posts that are joking, kidding, or speculation (but are written fairly seriously or matter-of-factly) should be clearly marked toward the beginning "humour," "speculation," or the like so that people don't go around believing the stuff you made up or are speculating about.
if you plan to talk about one song or album frequently in your post, please spell it out the first time, show the abbreviation you intend to use, and then use abbreviations afterward if you so choose.
please note this list is set up so that if you hit reply, your post will go ONLY to the person who sent the post to which you are replying. if you hit "REPLY TO ALL" from your email program, you will be sending your reply to the sender AND the whole mailinglist. so just make sure you know what you really want to do before you do it! :)
please use the page smoe provides at here to join or leave the immediate or digest list OR to change your subscription settings. If you have questions or are having problems, just email Debbie; there's no need to email the whole list.
the list name is frenz
if you are a regular or digest member of the list, you may post to the list at [list@frenz.com]. this goes through smoe, so when the mail comes from our list, it will have lots of headers containing smoe.org and not frenz.com.
don't post in all caps unless you want to be read as shouting. please don't shout. instead, you may want to capitalise a few words, use *stars*, or emoticons :) to try to show the emphasis of your sentence or the intention of your words. please remember people are reading and not hearing you, and may miss sarcasm, humour, or something else you thought you were expressing.
please do not send entire or parts of a private mail someone sent to you to the list without the sender's permission. there is a reason that person chose to send you that mail privately, so please respect that by not sharing their mail, even if you don't quote the source.
please do not publicly correct anyone's spelling, grammar, typos, or word choice.
if your reply can benefit from a small quote from the previous mail, please include that quote. if it's not necessary, please do not quote the entirety of a long mail, even if your mail app does it by default - just delete those bits.
