Posting to [COLUG], Spinal Tap, and Politics

[A COLUG Administrator]

Here's how to improve the odds of your posts getting to the list. 

1. Use interleaved quoting per: 

      http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/06/14/quoting.html

   Top-posting bloats the size of letters, until they exceed the limit. 
   (Also, top-posts can be harder to understand, 
   so people who know the answer to your issue, 
   often give up and move on to the next letter.)

2. Use plain-text email. Here's how:

       http://www.expita.com/nomime.html#programs

   HTML bloats email to exceed the limit. 
   For extra bonus points, top post in _both_ plain text and HTML. 

3. Subscribe. 

   Amazingly, some posters are surprised when their posts 
   are denied because they aren't subscribed. 

   Subscribe at http://www.colug.net/mailing_list/

4. Post political stuff to colug-politics at colug.net

   It's up to you to post to the correct list. 

   Posting political stuff to colug432 at colug.net really boosts your 
   score. That someone else snuck a few through, doesn't mean that 
   you should try also. There are undocumented reports of some correlation 
   between posters of political stuff to colug432 at colug.net and 
   drummers. Some disappear in a cloud of smoke, knocking over 
   their kit. The police have told us we just shouldn't ask 
   about one of the drummers. 

5. Pray. 

   Some of _my_ posts have disappeared without a trace
   and _I_ don't know why. That's just too bad. 

   The net is a wild and wooly place. 
   Email is _not_ a guaranteed delivery service. 
   Look at the "Received: " lines in the headers. 
   Bad things can happen at each step. 
   Entropy rules. 



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