e-gold-list is hosted by e-gold.com. It is moderated by James Ray who works in sales at e-gold. Because of this, the traffic is usually on-topic (or James puts an end to it) and not too many posts per day to read. See the rules below for allowed topics. The web interface is usually talk.e-gold.com, but that doesn't seem to respond at the present time. If you are interested in joining the list, consider sending a polite e-mail to the list owner, which you can find at the end of the rules below.
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e-gold list rules:
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Any comments, questions, opinions, or advertising (more than twice a year
would be excessive) related to e-gold/money are fair game on this list.
However, please follow these rules when posting:
1. Plain text format only:
* People tend to find HTML format e-mail (especially on mailing lists)
annoying for various reasons, including its comparative bulkiness, its
comparative slowness, and the display of formatting commands in mail
programs that are not capable of handling this format.
* However, the main reason to stick to plain text is to keep the digest
version of the e-gold list readable. The digest is plain text only;
therefore, recipients see HTML formatting commands rather than the
result you intended whether or not their mail programs are capable of
handling HTML. This is distracting and makes your posts less readable
than if they were originally posted in plain text format. Also for the
sake of digest readers, please minimize quoting of messages and try to
eliminate the practice of putting entire original messages below your
comments. Instead, reply only to what is needed and delete ALL the
rest of the text!
2. No e-mail attachments. Instead post files of interest at your
website or a publicly accessible FTP site and provide a URL in your
post.
* There is the strong likelihood that some (in some cases most)
subscribers will not have the software necessary to view your attachment
as you intended.
* Again, the main reason to avoid attachments is to keep the digest
version of e-gold list readable. The digest is plain text only;
therefore, recipients will see hundreds of lines of gibberish rather
than the result you intended. Hundreds of lines of gibberish cause
issues of the digest to be published with very little meaningful
content. This is rude.
3. Cite only those portion of previous posts pertinent to the points
you wish to make or the questions you wish to ask. If it's not worth
your time to make this effort, then don't post. The moderator is a
stickler for this rule, and has been known to "censor" violators.
4. Off-topic commercial posts are Spam. Spam is anathema on the e-gold
list. Spammers will be unsubscribed without notice. Off-topic also are
long discussions such as anything about your politics or who you worship (trust
us, someone thinks you're an idiot if you keep bringing this stuff up!).
5. Before posting, ask yourself: "Is my post likely to be of interest or
value to a broad range of people from around the world who are
interested in the topic of e-gold/money?" If in doubt, please don't post.
The list default is a private email reply, for privacy and to reduce
noise.
To illustrate:
Good post topics:
* e-gold related business ideas
* Announcing that your business accepts e-gold (more than twice a year
would be too often, try not to post too much!)
* schemes to get large well known businesses to accept e-gold
* Questions about using e-gold that you still have after *thoroughly*
perusing the e-gold website, especially the FAQ.
* Suggestions for the e-gold folks after you are confident that you are
sufficiently clueful to offer an opinion ("lurk" awhile on any list you
join if you wish to avoid problems).
* e-gold items in the news (yea!)
* announcements from e-gold
Bad post topics:
* Anything not related to the topic of e-gold. I'll cut you a little
slack here, just don't hang yourself with it ;)
* Religious stuff. Nothing against whatever your religion is, but this
is not the place for it.
* Political stuff. It could be argued that the very concept of e-gold
is of a libertarian bent, but that is not license to use this list to
get people to write their senators or whatever, no matter how important
you think the cause is. If the list does stray into politics, please
consider the default-reply, especially if you're boring.
* Nobody wants their mailbox flooded with stuff like: "Yeah, me too" or
"Ditto" and these messages usually rudely quote the entire other email.
Also, please quote ABOVE the reply (people read from top to bottom,
and doing anything else is RUDE to the digest subscribers. The evil-
moderator _doesn't care_ about Microsoft Outlook's default settings in
this case, list email is different and it's worth a few seconds of your
time to post correctly or not-at-all.
* Don't post replies to the list that would be better to send off list.
Use your *best* judgement. When in doubt, reply to the individual and
not the list, especially if traffic is heavy. Note again the default
reply.
One last thing. View this more as a gentle suggestion, rather than a
rule:
RUN SPELL CHECK
If you are a seasoned old web maven, please forgive the bossiness. If
you are not, listen up, or somebody else will undoubtedly tell you again
without being so charming about it :) It's worth taking a bit more of your
time to carefully proofread any message to any list with these thoughts
in mind.
Send your posts to e-gold-list at talk.e-gold.com
If you have trouble or questions, send e-mail to:
owner-e-gold-list at talk.e-gold.com and the moderator will eventually
get back to you.
Thank you for participating.
e-gold-tech is a low traffic mailing list devoted to discussion of programming software to interact with the e-gold server, including shopping cart interface and automation interfaces. Along with e-gold-list, e-gold-tech receives a copy of scheduled e-gold system downtime announcements. I imagine you could get a subscription if you e-mail owner-e-gold-tech at e-gold.com and request one.
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