[nukkad] [Admin] List guidelines <-- Read!

[Harshal Chhaya <>]

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Hello "nukkad" members,

This is a periodic message that contains the guidelines for the "nukkad" 
mailing list. 

This message is sent to you to keep you posted on relevant information 
and resources as well as introduce new members to the list.

New members are encouraged to review this message and become familiar
with all the information it contains. And it will help exisiting 
members to re-fresh their understanding of what is acceptable on
this "nukkad".

If you have any questions or comments, write to me at
                 harshal@mumbai-central.com

BTW, the person who recently posted a sardar joke has been removed from
the list.

Regards,

- 'shal, list admin
harshal@mumbai-central.com


___Guidelines___

If you have just joined "nukkad", Welcome!  Our list is content
rich and filled with good advice and wisdom based on the many experienced
participating on hand to share their experiences and ideas.

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If you don't have access to the web, please wait a few days before posting.
This will give you an idea of the nature of discussions on the list.
This will also avoid re-posting of material recently seen on the list.

The list admin is always available to answer your questions and 
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You can write to the admin at
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Thank you for your time and cooperation!

- 'shal, list admin
Mumbai Central


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List Guidelines for the "nukkad" list.
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 - "nukkad" is *not* a joke list. There are other much better, much more 
 suitable mailing lists for humorous material. A list of these lists
 is at:
    http://www.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Humor__Jokes__and_Fun/Mailing_Lists/
 Anyone sending any offensive jokes or any "sardarji" jokes
 will be removed from the list.

 - Do not send any commercial advertisements to "nukkad". If you wish
 to advertise on the Mumbai Central web site and its mailing lists,
 write to 
                         ads@mumbai-central.com

 - No attachments to messages sent to "nukkad". This includes images and 
 executable programs.  They clog up bandwidth, fill up inboxes and cause 
 all around misery. Executable attachments can contain viruses that 
 can cause untold problems to others on the list. If you have something 
 you want to make available, put it on an online server site and send 
 a pointer to the list. You can also state you have it, and have people 
 request it by private e-mail. 
 

 - No chain letters, virus warnings, good luck charms and any thing
 remotely similar. Definitive information on most hoaxes is available
 at:
          http://www.kumite.com/myths/
          http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html


 - Do not include "nukkad" in a larger e-mail group alias of your friends
 and acquaintances. This will avoid mistakes where a message suitable 
 for your friends but unsuitable for a public list gets inadvertantly 
 posted here.
 
 - Please, please, please, remove the stuff in a note that you are
 responding to which is not necessary.  There is an increasing
 trend on this list to just copy the entire message you are
 responding to, including the signatures of all the people
 along the line that have responded to it, and resend that in your
 note.
 
 Please remove everything from the quoted note except for the
 portion that you are actually responding to.  This will save
 people's time, "nukkad"'s bandwidth, and prevent you from getting
 those irritating little notes from me telling you to edit
 responses.
 


 - Include your e-mail address in all your messages. This will make
 it easier for people to reply to you directly instead of sending it to the
 list.



 - "nukkad" is not a continuously updated sports ticker. Do not send
 messages to the list asking for the latest score of ongoing matches.
 The easiest way to get update cricket/football scores is to use off-line
 resources (newspapers, TV, radio etc.). If you wish to use the 'net to 
 get these scores, there are much better places to get them than on 
 "nukkad" where you are likely to get outdated details.

 To get regularly updated cricket scores, use the email-based service 
 at cricket.org. Send a message to 
              "cricinfo@cricket.org" 
 with the words "new live" in the "Subject:" of the message. 
 This will return you a message containing the matches they are currently 
 covering. Then send a second message to the same address 
 "cricinfo@cricket.org" with the name of the match you want the details of.
 For eg., sending the "new live" request during the 1st one-day, I got
 
     Your NEW LIVE request matches directory NEW/LIVE/
     =================================================================
     Listing of Directory NEW/LIVE/ :
     Topics ending with / indicate subdirectories
     IND_AUS_PTC_ODI1_01APR1998  STATS/
     LIVEDATA/

 A second message to "cricinfo@cricket.org" with the subject
                    IND_AUS_PTC_ODI1_01APR1998
 resulted in the current scoreboard and ball-by-ball details. 

 This is much better, more reliable and more useful way to get the cricket
 scores than asking on this list.



 - People who post riddles, brain-teasers and other conundrums
 should compile the responses and post a summary to the list. People
 responding to such puzzles should do it directly to the sender and not
 to the list. If you are not willing or unable to summarize the responses
 to your puzzles, don't send them to the list.



 - Not everyone has the luxury of unlimited time and bandwidth. A few people
 have been asked to leave the list by their network admin (at work) as 
 messages from this list were overloading their systems. 

 If this mailing list is to survive and serve its purpose, all of us need 
 to make a conscious effort to reduce the number of messages we send
 to "nukkad".
 
 If you are sending non-critical material like jokes (why?), limit your
 messages to one or a maximum of two per day.


 - Please consider using other, more appropriate free resources before 
 asking a question on this list. You will find a particular piece of 
 software much quicker if you used a regular search engine than if you 
 asked here.




 - Do not post anything remotely offensive on this list.
 Your boss might be reading it.


Remember that you own your words and that they own you. Communicating
on this list is akin to standing up in front of a large audience and 
making a speech. In fact, it is worse since you can't see them and have no
idea of their reactions. Think about this when you send your next message
to "nukkad".

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