WCG Chat Email Discussion Group
TIPS FOR NEW MEMBERS
- Once your subscription is complete and you get a feel of the group, please post a greeting and give us all a chance to meet you.
- Sign each post with your real name and your e-mail address.
- Always have a spirit of love and gentleness.
- Do not forward posts from the WCG-Chat mailing list to any non-member without first securing the permission of the person who wrote the original post.
- Do not post the following kinds of messages: a) any personal communication with another list member. b) messages meant to be "corrective" of other list member's behavior. c) messages in which you are making a reply and you include the entire original post ... only include the parts you are responding to
- Be very careful in quoting or posting copyrighted material.
WHAT TO DO IF YOU ARE REALLY UPSET BY A POST
- Do not reply immediately.
- If you still have lots of mail to read (or the rest of the Digest), then continue to read your mail. This will give you time to calm down and may allow someone else to respond who will say what you are thinking in a clearer and more persuasive manner.
- Consider whether it might be better to reply by private e-mail, rather than to the list. You may even decide that no reply is the wise course.
- If after all this, you still feel you must reply: fine, go ahead.
- Now, having written your response, and before posting it, consider the whole matter again. Re-read your response, checking for errors of citation, logic, spelling, and fact. Check that it is correctly addressed, especially if you intend replying to the individual and not the list. Checking your mail before you send it will save you from much embarrassment.
- Pray about it before you hit the send button!