Posting Tips - Scranton DanceNet

B. Background Info - Things You Should Know This Page Is For Dance Announcers This page is for people: who have are already subscribed to the Scranton DanceNet Yahoo Listserver. . . [How do I subscribe?] . . [What is a Listserver? Help] the Moderator Joyce Knott has given them "posting privileges" The Listserver Moderator attempts to prevent Spamming and other improper usage by giving posting privileges only to "approved senders". The Posting Process When you "post" (send a message) to the Listserver, it then distributes your message to all subscribers. Yahoo scans your message for viruses, adds the headers and footers and sometimes their advertisements, and sometimes changes your fonts and indentation in unexpected and undesired ways. Test Listserver Note that there is a separate "Test Listserver" available for practice. You can practice sending messages to this dummy practice Listserver, before you post to the real Listserver. I recommend you try your first message on this test listserver.

C. Address For Posting Send your announcement to: ScrantonDance@yahoogroups.com Put this address into your address book, so you get it right the next time. C1. Copy Yourself Send yourself a "blind carbon" copy (use BCC button). C2. New Announcers Copy -- Send me a "blind carbon" copy (use BCC button) the FIRST few times you post. REASON: If the post does not work, then I can examine what you sent. You can use my "public" address at the bottom of this page ( shoot-all-spammers@track2.com ). Put this address into your address book, so you get it right the next time.

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D. Message Guidelines Including Your Email Address In The Body You can include your own email address in the BODY of the message . . . if you are willing to risk Spammers possibly being able to see it on the Listserver's web archive page. REASON: The web page archive will truncate the sender's address in the FROM line, but it may display email addresses in the BODY. See message 25 in the test listserver as an example. Including Other People's Email Addresses In The Body Please don't include anyone else's email in the body of the message, unless you have their permission to do so. Attachments Please don't attach photos or flyers unless they are in JPEG or GIF or PDF format, and they are compressed to total size no larger than 100 K. Curbing Abuse Announcers who repeatedly break the above guidelines, may have their posting privileges restricted or removed.

E. Listserver Delays Inbox Delays Your copy may come to your inbox almost immediately, or it may be delayed up to several hours if Yahoo is busy or down. Please do NOT send multiple copies of the same message, just because you don't see your first copy right away. Verify Message Reached Listserver Whenever you send a message, you can perform the following 2 steps to verify the Listserver "distributed" it: Verify it appears on the Listserver web page at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ScrantonDance Check that you received a copy of the message from the Listserver in your email inbox. It will be identified by the subject tag [ScrantonDanceNet]

m . . This page modified 1/29/2007 by JamesRobertIngram.com , Williamsport PA, Apache Junction AZ