[A83] abuse of mailing list


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[A83] abuse of mailing list



Dear subscribers to ticalc's mailing list,

altough I am not in the position of being able to moderate messages 
and/or ask you to keep the following things in mind, I would appreciate 
it if you could be able to obey the following rules (which, and I guess 
other people as well, irritate me)

1. do not send messages in HTML format, this has not occured a lot 
lately, but it is confusing and irritating when it happens.

2. read the manual. Please do not use this list to ask questions that 
are answered in the documentation contained within programs or 
utilities.

3. *search the archives*. There is nothing more irritating then asking 
a question that has already been answered in the past.

4. do not send full source code and ask to debug it. This list is not 
intended for sending complete programs to, in the hope that you will 
get a bug free program back. You become better at programming by 
learning from your mistakes. If you know what part of code causes the 
problem, just go ahead and ask.

5. please (this has occured many times lately) send emails containing 
only 'OK' or 'why?'. This leads to lots of emails containing non-
informational content, so try to either send these mails to the sender 
(not the list) or avoid them at all.

6. do not mailbomb the list with programs you made or irrelevant links. 
You can advertise your program by either asking the ticalc staff to 
create a news article (if the program is worth it) or dedicate a 
website to it.

7. I am certainly not interested in what you know about off-topic 
items, please stay on-topic, that is: TI83(+ and SE) Assembly language. 
This, however, does include general syntax and usage of the Z80 ASM 
language, so I'm not complaining if you email about that.

8. one hard last part: please ignore Hays crap in the future. Let us 
just act like men and ignore them like we should: off-topic is already 
adressed in point 7.

There are several other issues that I do not mention here, but as I 
stated earlier, I cannot force you to keep these things in mind. Just 
try to keep the list clear of spam and link-bombs. I will personally 
thank you if you obey these few rules.

Secondly, I would like to thank all the (in my eyes) elite TI coders 
like David Philips, Joe Pemberton, Dan Weiss, Brandon Sterner and of 
course Harper Maddox (James Matthews anyone?) for staying on the list 
even tough there are times when you'd gladly unsubscribe.

Notice: I am not a ticalc moderator, nor am I god. I just want to keep 
the list readable for both myself and the general public. I am not 
attacking individuals or individual messages.

Yours sincerely,
Frank Schoep



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