[MUD-Dev] Guilds & Politics

[coder at ibm.net]

On 10/12/97 at 04:24 PM, Stephen Zepp <zoran at enid.com> said:

>At 10:57 PM 12/9/97 PST8PDT, you wrote:

Writing as list owner:

  Please attribute all quoted text on the list.  Attributing to "you" is
not quite enough.  Quoting from the list's welcome text:

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All quoted text in postings to the list is required to be attributed. A
typical attribution might be:

  On 05/12/97 at 05:37 PM, xxx at yyy.site.domain said:

Longer and shorter attributions are possible.  Many mailers produce such
text automatically when quoting a message.  Some mailers produce such
attributions with "...you said:".  These in particular are not acceptable
as an attribution must identify the author.  For situations where correct
attributions are not automatically available, manual attributions are
acceptable.  Often these can be as simple as:

  [JoeBloe:]

or:

  [bubba at somewhere.domain:]

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