5. POSTING & GETTING RESPONSES: Guideline of the Day

[Guest guest]

The 12 sections of the " WTO Guidelines "

are posted at the rate of one per day, as below:

1 - Intro to WTO

2 - Technical Stuff

3 - List Facilitation

4 - List Netiquette

5 - Posting and Getting Responses

6 - Eggshell Resources, Abbreviations

7 - Offended? Send Problems to Us

8 - Confidentiality

9 - Humor, Lasagna Therapy, Off Topic Posts

10 - The Family of Welcome To Oz Lists

11 - Live Chat, The Buddy System

12 - BPs on WTO

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5. POSTING & GETTING RESPONSES: Guideline of the Day

Once you have joined a WTO list, please send your messages to

NAMEOFGROUPYahoogroups

eg,

WelcomeToOz

WTOatwork

WTOchat

WTOChristian

WTODivorcing

WTOGLBT

WTOmenonly

WTOnon-only

WTOparenting

WTOStaying

WTOsibling

MiniWTO

ModOasis

To reach the list owner, write to WelcomeToOz-owner

DO NOT SEND YOUR PUBLIC *MESSAGES* TO THAT ADDRESS.

DO NOT SEND *COMMANDS* TO EITHER OF THESE ADRESSES.

If you want to change anything about your subscription, please go to

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Nameoflist

(eg, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WelcomeToOz)

" eGroups.com " as a domain will also work, but Yahoo groups recently

merged with eGroups and the domain changed.

About getting the most RESPONSES: Please be very specific with Subject

lines. If you want to talk about treatment for BPD, the subject line

QUESTION ABOUT DEPAKOTE will elicit more of the responses you are

looking for than MEDICATION or worse yet, RE: DIGEST NO. 123. If a

thread has changed, please rename it to reflect the content. If the

subject is about something off topic, please write the letters OT (for

Off Topic) in the Subject line.

About POSTING: This is a wonderful group. But some people are, how shall

we say, technically challenged and do not understand how to use their

mail programs. The 20% who don't understand make things challenging for

the rest of us.

Please, if you do not understand how to use your mail program, do not

attach pages of long former posts for 800 people to reread. In one

thread, this pages-long post can get reprinted 10 times. Imagine

yourself standing up in front of 800 people and doing that. OK. Now call

SOMEONE who knows whatever email program you have and ask them how to

keep only the essential paragraph that you are replying to.

By the same token, many emails refer to things said when they DON'T

include a snippet and people are completely lost. Usually it goes

something like this: " Yes, I agree, , but what about using PUVAS

in that situation. " What situation? If you want feedback, include

something so we can refer back to what the original post was about. This

also requires knowledge of your email program; knowledge that will

benefit you in ALL that you do.

Please do not press Reply and create the subject line " Re: [WelcomeToOz]

Digest Number 1780 " . Please actually think about what you're writing and

write a subject like a headline, question, or comment. Or at least

" About XYZ. " This helps people wade through several hundred messages.

Finally, we're not all English majors and some use English as a second

language. But the easier your post is to read, the more people will read

it and respond. If English is your second language, say so and we will

cut you some slack. Also, if you are in a country besides the US and

asking about legal matters, please say so.

Randi Kreger

List owner, Welcome To Oz Lists

Coauthor, Stop Walking on Eggshells

Love and Loathing, Hope for Parents

www.BPDCentral.com

Addendum:

A portion of the guidelines to the WTO groups are sent out each day

because altogether they can be rather overwhelming. They are sent to all

lists in approximate order of what is important and are not making any

comment on any particular message on any one of the WTO groups. Please

note our guidelines have developed over the years by the group as a

whole to meet situations that come up again and again. Before you post,

you must agree to try to read and try to meet them. If you have any

questions, comments, or feelings you wish to voice about the guidelines,

please write to at bear454us@... or Edith at

psychprof5@.... Thank you!

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Posted by Edith

Facilitator / WTO lists

PsychProf5@...