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From: "Andrea Vogel" <>
Subject: Surname Capitals & Off/On List Discussion
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:33:22 -0700

Hello all --

Hope you're all enjoying the season,
no matter what season that is in your little
part of the planet.

Just a couple of administrative comments
to make.

Firstly, I don't know about you but I
really appreciate it when surnames
are capitalised in posts to the list. If
they're in capitals in the subject line,
that's great, but even more helpful
is to put each surname mentioned in
your actual message in capitals as
well.
Yes. I know, takes a little more work on
your part. But think of the benefits. Your
object in posting is to get the attention of
the hundreds of other people here and
particularly to the surnames you're
interested in. The easiest way to
do that is to capitalise the surnames.
Makes them jump out of the message,
makes them SHOUT at you, doesn't
it?
So, please capitalise. One of our
list guidelines mentions this specific
topic.

Secondly, and this concerns another
of our guidelines. The purpose of a mailing
list is to share on-topic info with each other
*on the list*.
Sharing info *off the list* defeats
the whole purpose of the list. Instead,
it turns into a private conversation between
two people that the rest of us aren't privy to.
Some of that privately-shared info may
be of help or interest to other subscribers
but, since it happened off list, they don't
know about it. As well, none of the info
goes into the list archives for the possible
benefit of others in the future.
Therefore, if it's on-topic for HWE,
I would hope and ask that everyone post
queries and replies to the list, rather than
privately off-list.

Our multilingual HWE guidelines are on
our website here:
http://www.island.net/~andreav/hweguide.htm.
The specific guidelines I've mentioned
above are numbers 2 and 6.
My best to all of you, Andrea (as list
concierge)

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