hi bill-the-lurker

At 13:25 1998/12/26 -0500, you wrote, in part:
><LURK MODE OFF>
>Hi all,
>I've  been  lurking  on  this  list since mid-September.  And,
>since I find some useful "gems" among the many posts to this  fo-
>rum, I thought I might come out of hiding for a moment and intro-
>duce myself so that folks would know who I am when I  do  finally
>interact with the list
>...
>where I am employed as a UNIX trainer and course developer
>...
>I was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease some three years ago.
>a Web-page I have written that tells a little of my disease history:
><http://w3.one.net/~wap/wapTremorStory.html>

contact our Web-Ring-Master-Extraordinaire
jerry finch at <[log in to unmask]>
if you would like your page
to be a link in the People-With-Parkinson's Web-Ring at:
<http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=parkie;list>

>...people have been discussing recently -- list volume, list police,
>on-topic  posting, etc. -- are subjects that come up *everywhere*
>...

good!
so we are not alone in these recurring discussions!

e-mail is a new frontier
e-mailing lists are a whole other miracle on this frontier
so we are all pioneers together

>here is my Internet 'Netiquette' promise to my fellow list-members:

this is a great list, bill!
i've added my comments and notes for newbies
since our newest members tend to be new
to computers, to e-mail, and to e-mailing-lists as well

>* I will always post in plain ASCII text to the list --...

newbie-note:
this is one of the settings
that can be changed in your e-mail software program
'set-up' or 'configuration' or 'preferences' or 'tools' or whatever

>* I will never "quote" the entire text of a message I reply to on-list

newbie-note:
this is another setting that can 'usually' be changed
in your e-mail software program set-up
that is, unless you use AOL - that's a whole other animal

>this style of quoting previous messages is an old internet standard
>>so that one could keep track of a 'thread' of a conversation
>>>as it kept getting more and more long winded
>>>>and had more and more replies added to it

>* I will use the carriage-return frequently and guarantee that no lines
>  in any message I send will be longer than 80 characters.

hmmm
i use the 'carriage-return' [aka the 'return' key] all the time
for my 'style of writing'
but otherwise i have my 'eudora light' e-mail software set
so that there are no return commands embedded in the text
thus ensuring [i hope] that the receiver's settings
as to line width will take precedence -
i may be right or wrong here -
i arrived at this conclusion by guess and by golly
due to lack of de-geeked instructions

quick nerd question: where does the term 'carriage-return' originate?

>* If the text of my reply heads off in a different direction than the
>  original post, I will change the "Subject: " header...

yep, good thinking
i find myself doing this more and more
either / changing the header / or adding to it

>* If my post is not .related to the list-topic,
>  I will put "OFF TOPIC: " in the "Subject: " header.

yep, also good thinking
a lot of us tend to use Non-PD: or even NPD: for the same reason
i also use NEWS: for news articles and QT: for quotations

>* I will not post any large files -- graphics, sounds, movies, whatever...

we had a problem with this
so our list-mom Barb Patterson
changed the listserver computer settings
so that any message over a certain size is automatically rejected

>FWIW  --  this is just how I do things.  Oh, and BTW, it is my
>opinion that everyone should subscribe to the digest  version  of
>the  list  at least once in their list-stay -- even if it is just
>for a day or two.  It is really eye-opening! ;-)...

we can change our subscription setting to 'digest format mail'
[i.e. messages are collected by the listserver computer
over a period of time, and then sent out as a 'lump'
two or three times per day]

by sending the message:
     SET PARKINSN DIGEST
to:
     [log in to unmask]

and we can change back to 'regular mail'
[i.e. messages are sent out by the listserver computer
individually, as they are received]

by sending the message:
     SET PARKINSN MAIL
to:
     [log in to unmask]

>...
><LURK MODE ON>

it was great to hear from you!
please de-lurk more often!

your cyber-sibling

janet


janet paterson - 51 now /41 dx /37 onset - almonte/ontario/canada
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