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                 A FEW COMMENTS ON NETIQUETTE
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What a wonderful group is forming! I am VERY impressed with the
insights each had this past week -- with very difficult
questions. I need to mention a few housekeeping items to make our
study smoother. Those of you who have been on the Net for a while
know this already, I'm sure, but please bear with me:

1. PLEASE DON'T PUT YOUR MESSAGE ALL IN CAPITALS. IT IS HARD TO
READ, AND IS CONSIDERED "SHOUTING" IN E-MAIL. Instead use
capitals for EMPHASIS occasionally, since underlining and italics
don't work too well in e-mail messages.

2. When responding to someone's comment, please just snip the
sentence or two you are commenting on, rather than the entire
message. That will save everyone getting a lot of extraneous
stuff to scroll through.

3. If you get behind more than a day, please just start with
today's questions and don't send your "old" answers to the list.
That way the conversation will stay pretty much on the same
topics.

4. When some individual asks a "housekeeping" question, such as
"what chapter are we in," please send your answer directly to
their e-mail address rather than to the list e-mail address. This
way we don't have to have as many extraneous messages sent to the
list.

5. When replying with your comments, PLEASE make sure that you
don't have all five study groups in either the TO: or CC: fields
of your e-mail program. Send your comments ONLY to your group.
That saves me from getting a lot of extra "bounced" mail. Thanks.

6. Please do not add my e-mail address or any one else's e-mail
address to any bulk list you have without specific permission. A
lot of times this may not be intended as deliberate "spamming,"
but that's the effect anyway. We need to respect one another on
this. You may send group members individual messages addressed to
them, just don't put their names on a whole list you send to --
unless they give you specific permission.

This is just fine-tuning, of course. I think you're all doing
very well with this new method of study. Keep up the good work.

God bless you,
Pastor Ralph