Welcome to the Sheffield LibDem Campaign Group Mailing list
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                        SLDCG@yahoogroups.com

                   Last modified on 7th March 2007

This is an occasional posting intended to introduce posters to the
Sheffield Liberal Democrat Campaign Group mailing list. The list is
spam-free as only members can post to it.

The SLDCG mailing list is a mailing list for all members of the Sheffield
Liberal Democrats Campaign Group. Members of the Campaign Group will be
subscribed by the list administrator.

Sending an email to SLDCG@yahoogroups.com will post a message to the list.
All messages posted to the mailing list will be posted to all subscribers
with the prefix [SLDCG] on the subject line.


Netiquette
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As with any social group there is a basic standard of behaviour expected
of group members. This is primarily intended to facilitate easy, relaxed
and fruitful discussion amongst members with a minimum of conflict and
strife. General advice includes:

* Don't post HTML messages.  This takes up a lot of bandwidth for very
  little useful gain.

* When replying to messages, only quote relevent sections of the message
  you are responding to.  Being forced to fetch huge messages where the
  whole of the original post is quotes and the only new material is "yes,
  me too!" will not win you very many friends.

* Replies go underneath the quoted material so the post can be read
  through an understood, not above.  Consider this dialogue:

 - Who's there?
 - Knock, knock.

See?

* Don't post binaries files.  This is a message list and binary
  attachments are removed. Upload them to a server and post a link to them
  instead.  Not everybody has a 115kbaud T10 ASDL connection and what may
  take half a second for you to send may take half an hour of expensive
  connection time for somebody else to fetch.


Other than that just being generally polite is a good rule of thumb. That
and enjoy yourself, the newsgroups are here for you to enjoy just as much
as anyone else.


Updates
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07-Mar-2007: Group administrator details updated.
03-Aug-2006: Initial document written.

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endeavour to keeps things working the best I can.
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