File - UKHA_D Guidelines

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UKHA_D Guidelines
Version 1.0
June 2004
(Updated Oct ’04)

The UK Home Automation Discussion (UKHA_D) Mailing list was formed in
September 1998.  These are some guidelines for the group.

FRIENDLY
We pride ourselves on having one of the friendliest, most helpful
communities around.
You won't get abuse for asking a "newbie" question and flaming
isn't tolerated here.  In
fact we ENCOURAGE newbie questions.  It’s great to hear other peoples ideas
and to
find out about their setups.  Answers are always changing as the technology
moves ahead
too.  So please ask away!

OFF TOPIC MESSAGES
The list has become known as a mine of useful information and questions on
many
diverse subjects have been successfully answered over the years.  However,
please keep
off topic posts to a sensible level and remember to try Google first!  A
small thread of
replies to OT messages will be  permitted.  However if the replies get too
long then
please move them off list.  All off  topic posts should use the following
syntax in the
subject line so they can be easily  filtered by those that don’t want to
read them –
“[OT] Subject of Message”

ADVERTS
Adverts are permitted on the list.  Companies can post a maximum of one
message per
month.  Individuals can post adverts too.  The preferred method is to post
to the buy/sell
forums (http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/forum4.html
 ) and then post the link to the
mailing list  All adverts should use the following syntax in the subject
line so they can be
easily filtered by those that don’t want to read them – “[ADVERT] Subject
of Message”.

POSTING URLs
If you need to post a message containing a long URL please shorten it first
with
www.tinyurl.com or equivalent.