[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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