Since they've just been updated, I'm reposting the official rules for
this list.
The updates as I remember them are:
1. Changing the email address listed for the Lord of the Keys.
2. Adding text about editing down quoted text, posting new text below
old text, and keeping line lengths short.
Welcome To The Dragaera Mailing List
V1.1 8-Jun-2002
We've created this list, with Steven's support, to provide a central
forum for fans of his work to find each other and discuss things.
Day-to-day operation is handled by the "Lord of the Keys" (see _500
Years After_). All decisions of the LotK are final until he changes
his mind. The current [8-Jun-2002] Lord of the Keys is Felix Strates
<omaha at mpls.cx>.
"On topic" material for this list includes general discussion among
fans of Steven Brust, Paarfi, and the world of Dragaera; moderate
amounts of "community" discussion; and such digressions as are more
trouble to suppress than to ignore.
This discussion must be conducted reasonably civilly. In particular,
personal attacks are forbidden. Do NOT tell somebody that they're a
poo-poo head; you may, if you wish, tell them that their claim to have
found Devera on page 184 of _Dragon_ doesn't stand up to examination.
When replying to a message on the list, relevant portions of the
previous message should be quoted. The *entire* message should
generally not be quoted, unless you're responding to each bit of it.
New material should be placed *below* the old material it's responding
to, not above. In other words, normal Usenet quoting conventions
should be observed.
Line lengths should be limited to less than 80 characters (70 is a
better number, to allow for some buildup of quoting).
Do not send file attachments to the list. Especially, do not send
binary files to the list. Do not send HTML to the list. Send plain
text messages to the list. All those other things will be stripped off
by the software running the list. (Technicalities: MIME
multipart/alternative is fine, so long as there is a text/plain part;
that part will be passed through and the rest stripped.) (AOL users:
that's what current AOL software does by default [as of 15-Apr-2002]
so you shouldn't have trouble posting).
The views expressed in messages on this list may be the views of the
people who sent the messages; they are *not* the official views of
anybody else. Note that this applies even to Steven and those of us
running the list -- unless specifically stated otherwise, we're
posting our personal opinions, not Official Truth.
While Steven doesn't hate fan fiction on principle, he doesn't want to
host it on the official web site or mailing list, so please don't send
any.
The information about the subscribers that we have (from the email
headers; name and email address) will be posted to the list monthly,
so people know with whom they are talking.
The posts to this list are archived and are publicly available via
email and on the web.
Only list members may post to this list (this is primarily a
spam-prevention measure).
To subscribe, send email to <dragaera-subscribe at dragaera.info>, and
respond to the confirmation message you will receive. (The
confirmation message makes it much harder for somebody to subscribe
you to this list as a "joke".)
To unsubscribe, send email to <dragaera-unsubscribe at dragaera.info>
>from the address you want unsubscribed, and respond to the
confirmation message you will receive there.
To send your message to all the subscribers on the list, send it to
<dragaera at dragaera.info>. You must be a subscriber to the list
yourself to do this. To communicate just with the Lord of the Keys,
email your message to <dragaera-owner at dragaera.info>.
To get help on the various commands the list management software
supports, send email to <dragaera-help at dragaera.info>.
(Technicalities: this list is run using ezmlm+idx).
The home page for this list is http://dragaera.info/lists/dragaera/.
Steven's web site is at http://www.dreamcafe.com
This mailing list, and the eventual related web site, is a project of
Corwin Brust, David Dyer-Bennet, and Felix Strates, with the support
of Steven Brust.
--
David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / New TMDA anti-spam in test
John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net
Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/
New Dragaera mailing list, see http://dragaera.info