The Steps Guide to Good E-Mail Manners

• We post as if every message we write were going to be read by the Throne, in Court, the next time we're called up to be given an award.
• We sign our messages with our name and e-mail address.
• We are tolerant of subject threads that bore us to death.
• We keep subject lines appropriate to the contents of the message.
• We do NOT include the entire message we are replying to.
• We DO include a few lines if our reply can't stand on its own.
• We do NOT send terse, one-line replies.
• We use emphasis to make our comments clear. (Stars, smilies, etc.)
• We use white space and keep our paragraphs short.
• We send a message directly to its intended recipient and post to the list as a whole only if appropriate.
• If our message is funny, frivolous, humourous, contains puns, or is generally silly in nature, we add a "Silly/Tavern/WOAW/TWEET" flag to the subject line so others can identify it easily.

• Event copy is welcome.
• Chronicles are welcome.
• Questions are welcome.
• Extensive discussions that get into the nitty-gritty politics of how the Society operates are welcome.
• Funny, silly, frivolous, amusing, playful, joking, cheerful postings are welcome.
• WOAWs, TWEETs, and TWITs, are generally harmless and should be pitied.
• Some merchant advertising is welcome.
• Elvis the Yak is our list mascot.

• Abusive or inflammatory language is not welcome.
• Profanity is not welcome.
• Topics not of interest to the people of An Tir are not welcome.
• Chain letters are not welcome.
• Mail bombs to each other are not welcome.

We hereby invest E.B. as the Steps E-Mail Fairy Godmother with the right to bop us on the head (gently, gently, politely, politely, and with love) with her magic E-mail Wand if we forget our manners. We also hereby invest her with the right to Grant a Wish in public for someone who's been especially good lately.

Original author: Elizabeth Braidwood
HTML conversion: Krenn von Salzburg

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