Technical recommendations [Moderator's note]

Dear Cybalist members,

May I remind everyone on the list of the following technical
recommendations? Please pay particular attention to points (4) and (5),
which are often ingnored by posters. Sometimes a one-line response is
accompanied by a long chain of unnecessarily quoted messages from the
same thread, and _very_ often the content of the posting has nothing to
do with its title.

Piotr



TECHNICAL RECOMMENDATIONS

(1) Post plain-text messages rather than HTML. Fancy backgrounds,
colours and fonts are dispensable.

(2) To minimise readability problems, use 'West European' encoding (that
is, the 'Latin-1' or ISO-8859-1 character set) whenever possible. If you
find it necessary to use something more sophisticated (e.g. UTF-8), do
so sparingly and don't forget to warn the list.

(3) Avoid sending attachments with your postings. Any pictures, Word or
PDF documents, etc. that you'd like to share with other list members
should be uploaded to the Files area instead. Please remember that
copyrighted materials have to be handled without breaking the legal
restrictions on their fair use. When in doubt, consult the moderators.

(4) When responding to others' postings, quote only those fragments of
the original message that you want to reply to. In particular, do not
quote whole threads. Make sure that the quotations are properly marked,
so that one can easily see who wrote what.

(5) If your reply drifts away from the original topic, change the
subject line (e.g. 'IE loanwords in Hurrian [was: The Indo-Iranian
homeland]').