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Rob , Thomas ....


Rob welcome to the list , thanks for joining in and providing a new and 
fresh posting to the list. We at the Slug love new members and love it 
even more when people post useful, relevant, interesting, witty, 
valuable contributions onto the list.

Thomas, your absolutley right top posting is a pain ... my customers 
love to top post and say my habit of putting the answer after the reply 
is a pain .. however like Angelo ive discovered that perservance and 
education help , and I love your wiki article on the topic. Would you 
believe I actually converted a marketing company to post in Plain text 
and not HTML when sending news letters ! Could we use an extract of that 
as a guideline for the mailing list and maybe place it on the website ?

So now back to my point. . .

Top Posting , Thread Jacking, subject morphing  and other post-iqutte 
[1].... Its appropriate that as new members and new netizens join in the 
verbal foray that they know the good manners (id say rules or etiquette 
but that seems to hard ) . This does thread for instance harks back to 
the  another members comments ( I forget his name ) about how as a club 
or a group its important that we establish a method or process for both 
the meetings and the mailng lists. Maybe now is the time that we have  a 
guidelines page on the list to aid people, when they join, understand 
how to post to the list and what etiquette is acceptable and what is not 
. . now thats a thought that should spark a good point of easter holiday 
conversation.

Have fun ... and safe posting !

[1] Me , i would like to begin to see an end to Acronyms and Verb nouning .