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Further Documentation on User Commands* Submissions to the list (messages you want to send to all subscribers) should be sent to ufomind@lists.best.com. The message will first go to the moderator, who will accept or reject the message based on the criteria below. (Note that "Replying" to a message from the list only replies to its author, not the entire list. You need to change the address to the one above if you want to submit the message to the list.) |
Moderation will continue to be "tight" - in that only a few messages will be allowed through each day - and back-and-forth debate will be limited to that which is truly productive. However, the new rules are much looser, and the moderator now has the discretion to accept any message he deems interesting. Instead of a strict charter, the new list will develop its own "personality" that will become clearer with time.
We do not intend to cover the same ground as other mailing lists and newsgroups (especially UFO UpDates, which is already archived on this server at http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/). Instead we intend to fill certain "niches" that are not covered as well elsewhere. These areas include...
We DO accept re-posted messages from other mailing lists and newsgroups, so long as they conform with our topics and "personality". We encourage readers to puruse other mailing lists and news sources for material that might be relevant to this list.
This is a "low bandwidth" mailing list. On average, we expect no more than six messages a day to be distributed. Our emphasis is on quality, not quantity -- selecting intelligent, stimulating messages rather than a lot of low-interest ones.
The reason for having a mailing list, instead of just a website, is to alert people to current news and to stimulate discussion and research in the most promising topics. Responses to previous messages are encouraged - but only if they are "substantial" and add something significant to the discussion. When you respond to a previous message, you should try to include the URL of the message you are responding to (from the archive at http://www.ufomind.com/misc/ ).
The best way to get to know this mailing list is to subscribe to it or review the archive. Further advice on submissions will be posted to this list as its personality is defined.
Remember that you don't need to subscribe to this list to read it or post to it. All messages are immediately archived on our website, and the latest are linked to our What's New page at http://www.ufomind.com/new/current/. The storage location for new archived messages has been changed to http://www.ufomind.com/misc/, but all messages from the Area 51 list remain at the old archive address: http://www.ufomind.com/area51/list/. Every message retains a permanent URL on our site, so you may feel free to link to any message from your own web pages and postings.
StatsAs of 11/09/98, there were 1573 subscribers (about half digest-only). Digest is generated every 5 days or 12 messages, whichever comes first. Performance. Due to high load on the mail server, a delay of 4-12 hours is now common between message approval and delivery to subscribers (not including the delay before the moderator approves the message, which can be up to several days). |
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Created: 9/1/96 gc
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