SEELANGS Administrivia - Advertising and other guidelines

[Alex Rudd]

Dear SEELANGers,

As SEELANGS has been in existence for a number of years, yet
has had usage guidelines in place for only the last ten months,
it might be a good time for me to post a reminder that we do,
in fact, have those guidelines, they're there for a reason, and
I'd ask everyone who has not yet done so to familiarize himself
or herself with them.

You can have LISTSERV e-mail you the current version of the
SEELANGS Welcome message, which contains the guidelines, by
sending the command:

GET WELCOME SEELANGS

in the body of e-mail to:  LISTSERV at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU

Or, if you prefer, you can visit our web site at:

http://members.home.net/lists/seelangs/

and click on "Welcome Message" to view it in your web browser.

Given what I've observed lately on the list, here are a couple
of the guidelines, excerpted from the Welcome message, which
seem relevant and timely.  Just a reminder...

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Quoting Text From Original Messages
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Because all posts to SEELANGS are archived, and because disk
space is a finite resource, list members are asked to pay
close attention when they reply to messages on the list and
quote text.  Including portions of original messages is fine,
as long as it's done to provide context for the reader and
is done selectively.  However, quoting entire original
messages within the body of replies, when the original messages
are more than just a few lines, is prohibited.  Not only
does it fill up our disk space with extraneous text, but
those list members receiving SEELANGS in DIGEST format are
forced to read through the same messages three and four
times.

Advertising on SEELANGS
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Since only subscribers have the ability to post to SEELANGS,
no outside entity will post advertisements directly to the
list.  From time to time the list owner receives requests
from vendors of slavic-related merchandise to distribute
information about that merchandise to the list membership.
If the list owner determines that the information may be of
interest, he may forward it to the list if the vendor complies
with the following conditions:

The advertisement will:

  o briefly identify the company
  o briefly describe the product(s)
  o NOT contain any price information or dollar amounts
  o request that any interested parties contact the vendor
    directly for further information
  o contain vendor contact information
  o NOT be more than 60 lines of text

List members who wish to advertise businesses or products
in which they have a financial interest are discouraged from
doing so on SEELANGS if the businesses or products have
nothing to do with slavic languages or literature.  If they
do have something to do with slavic languages or literature,
list members are asked to comply with the above guideline.

NOTE:  The above guideline regarding advertising on SEELANGS
does not apply to seminar and conference announcements.
Such announcements may contain dollar amounts and, due to the
occasional inclusion of forms, may exceed 60 lines of text.  If
posting an announcement or including a form, please be sure to
insert your own "Reply-To:" tag in your out-going mail header or
write the list owners for assistance if you do not know how that
is accomplished.

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Thanks for your cooperation.  Any questions, please send them off-
list.

- Alex, list owner of SEELANGS    seelangs-request at listserv.cuny.edu
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Alex Rudd                ahrjj at cunyvm.cuny.edu            ARS KA2ZOO
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