I am aware that a few of you are new to Yahoo Grouping; a few tips for everyone posting (must be getting near my 12 month 'reminder').
In the subject line to the group, please put what the email is about - this helps people find things they want to read and skip posts threads that do not interest them.
If you are referring to someone else's post, please quote the relevant parts, don't include the entire post as this wastes bandwidth, storage space and people's time re-reading something that they've already seen. Especially 'spam' headers that appear from most web mailers. You spending 10 seconds editing may well save hundreds of people 10 seconds each re-reading - a big time saver!
If you like something, it is great to hear that you like it, but WHAT you like about it and why are much more helpful to us! A general rule is that if you have less than two sentences to post, it is quite probably not worth posting - "me too" posts don't add anything to a conversation (though can provoke flame wars) and just waste resources.
This is a discussion group. Discussion of any of Jim or Des' characters from stories, comics, fan art and fan fiction or what ever are encouraged. It is not an online to-do list for Jim; making demands that he "draw this because I want to see it" is poor form. Discussions such as "it would be really cool to see the girls doing ..." are fine, as this is talking about what you would like, but not putting an expectation on the artist to do it for you. If you make it sound appealing enough, you may even get lucky!
Spelling and Grammar. I think nearly everyone has heard this before. People who have English as a second language (and English is quite difficult!) often write better than many native speakers; we'll pardon typos and difficult phrasing, but laziness is not a valid excuse. Why should we bother to try and decipher your blather if you can't be bothered to write clearly? The only thing we know about you is the way you come across in your prose - best make a good impression!
Signing off is a polite thing to do. Keeping it concise (I believe 3 lines maximum is the RFC recommendation), but at least putting your name or initials (like Jim does) at the end shows we have at least reached the end of the message and nothing has been cut off or lost. Think of each post like writing a letter; it isn't a chat / instant messenger forum!
Scrapper, Black Dragon, advocating keeping yourself nice.
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Received on Tue Oct 13 2009 - 18:03:51 CDT