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 [log in to unmask]