Welcome to the IFIS-Chat list...
I've just added yet another bunch of new members to the mailing-lists,
so I'll run this post again... Apologies to those who've seen this all
before...
... If you're reading this, you are subscribed to the IFIS CHAT
mailing-list. You can post there yourself - if you mail
chat@ your mail will be sent to all subscribers.
If you do NOT recieve another similar-looking mail, then you are NOT
subscribed to IFIS ANNOUNCE. You may want to consider joining - it's a
fairly quiet list that doesn't overflow your mailbox every week, but
DOES give important announcements about society events and other
important sci-fi stuff that's happenning.
To avoid confusion over exactly what should be sent to IFIS-CHAT and
what should be sent to IFIS-ANNOUNCE, I suggested the following
guidelines some time ago. They're not too strictly enforced, but they
seem to work about right:
announce: "Video evening tomorrow"
announce: "Christmas dinner arrangements"
announce: "sci-fi convention next weekend in birmingham"
announce: "AGM next week in ALT3"
announce: "that sci-fi shop in egham is having a book sale!"
announce: "New series of blakes 7 starts december 12th" if you're
just telling us?
etc.
chat: "New series of blakes 7 starts december 12th" if you're
intending to chat about it too.
chat: "that sci-fi shop in egham is actually quite expensive"
chat: "where's our bloody library"
chat: "grumble moan insult jenny whine whinge"
chat: "gripe mutter insult jacqui whilst we're at it, criticise nag"
chat: "Why have I got too much email"
chat: "how should we REALLY split the list"
chat: "what should we do about all these damned ex-students"
chat: "what should we do about all these damned students"
chat: "borg v death-star, value of pi near black holes, etc etc etc"
chat: "isn't terry's / douglass' / whoever's new book really cool?"
etc
ifis-chat should probably be the kind of stuff we TALK about down at
the pub. ifis-announce should probably be the kind of stuff we grab
everyone's attention for and SHOUT about down at the pub, and/or put
up posters for, give out leaflets, etc.
Also, in case it's not obvious, if you want to CHAT about something
that's just been ANNOUNCED, you do your CHATting on the CHAT list.
These are just my guidelines. As you can see, I'm not even certain
about all of them myself. Better suggestions are welcome.
If you would like to change which listss you're subscribed to, please
mail nick@ or use the form that's on the web pages -
www.ifis.org.uk - under the "mailing-list" section.
Nick Waterman. Network Consultant / Sysadmin - LEOnet
nick-sig@ Team *AMIGA*!
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
Nick Waterman. Network Consultant / Sysadmin - LEOnet
nick-sig@ Team *AMIGA*!
I've given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
so I'll run this post again... Apologies to those who've seen this all
before...
... If you're reading this, you are subscribed to the IFIS CHAT
mailing-list. You can post there yourself - if you mail
chat@ your mail will be sent to all subscribers.
If you do NOT recieve another similar-looking mail, then you are NOT
subscribed to IFIS ANNOUNCE. You may want to consider joining - it's a
fairly quiet list that doesn't overflow your mailbox every week, but
DOES give important announcements about society events and other
important sci-fi stuff that's happenning.
To avoid confusion over exactly what should be sent to IFIS-CHAT and
what should be sent to IFIS-ANNOUNCE, I suggested the following
guidelines some time ago. They're not too strictly enforced, but they
seem to work about right:
announce: "Video evening tomorrow"
announce: "Christmas dinner arrangements"
announce: "sci-fi convention next weekend in birmingham"
announce: "AGM next week in ALT3"
announce: "that sci-fi shop in egham is having a book sale!"
announce: "New series of blakes 7 starts december 12th" if you're
just telling us?
etc.
chat: "New series of blakes 7 starts december 12th" if you're
intending to chat about it too.
chat: "that sci-fi shop in egham is actually quite expensive"
chat: "where's our bloody library"
chat: "grumble moan insult jenny whine whinge"
chat: "gripe mutter insult jacqui whilst we're at it, criticise nag"
chat: "Why have I got too much email"
chat: "how should we REALLY split the list"
chat: "what should we do about all these damned ex-students"
chat: "what should we do about all these damned students"
chat: "borg v death-star, value of pi near black holes, etc etc etc"
chat: "isn't terry's / douglass' / whoever's new book really cool?"
etc
ifis-chat should probably be the kind of stuff we TALK about down at
the pub. ifis-announce should probably be the kind of stuff we grab
everyone's attention for and SHOUT about down at the pub, and/or put
up posters for, give out leaflets, etc.
Also, in case it's not obvious, if you want to CHAT about something
that's just been ANNOUNCED, you do your CHATting on the CHAT list.
These are just my guidelines. As you can see, I'm not even certain
about all of them myself. Better suggestions are welcome.
If you would like to change which listss you're subscribed to, please
mail nick@ or use the form that's on the web pages -
www.ifis.org.uk - under the "mailing-list" section.
Nick Waterman. Network Consultant / Sysadmin - LEOnet
nick-sig@ Team *AMIGA*!
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
Nick Waterman. Network Consultant / Sysadmin - LEOnet
nick-sig@ Team *AMIGA*!
I've given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.