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Welcome to flock(at)mezziah.org!  
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Please SAVE THIS MESSAGE, as it contains important information that you
will probably wish to refer to in the future.
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*** Make sure you read and understand the list guidelines at the end of 
these instructions. ***
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DESCRIPTION
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flock is an unmoderated mailing list for adherents, fans, and hangers-on
of the Church of Mez.  Please send mail to the list introducing yourself.
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ADMINISTRATION
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In order to promote a more cohesive community, the denizens of Seventh
Maze are currently restricting flock subscriptions to people we know or
who are vouched for by people we know well.  There's not a
formal procedure in place for this; just send mail to
seventhmaze(at)mezziah.org with a description of the person if you've got
somebody who fits the bill, who you'd vouch for, and who'd like to
subscribe. 
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All your personal mail-configuration needs can be served by visiting http://www.byz.org/mailman/listinfo/flock .
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GROUND RULES/CONVENTIONS
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   <li>Don't piss off the listowner. This is not a democracy, it's a
dictatorship.
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     <li>Respect people's privacy:  Do not share any list mail with anyone
who isn't on this list without explicit permission from the person who
wrote it and anyone they quoted.  Do not share any private mail from
anyone on-list without explicit permission from the person who wrote it  
and anyone they quoted.  In short, do not quote people outside the forum
that they chose for their own words without their permission.
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     <li>Do not assume that everyone is using a similar mailreader as yours.
Wrap your lines at 70 characters or less. Don't send HTML mail. Keep your
.sig to approximately four lines if you have one.
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     <li>Make sure to trim your quotes when replying to a message. Include
just the relevant portions of the previous post, not the whole thing.
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     <li>Do not send commercial advertisements to this list.
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     <li>Please keep cross-posting to a bare minimum. This is a "closed"
list, which means that only subscribers can post to it.
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     <li>When sending URLs to the list, include a brief description.  Be
sure to include a warning if the page might be inappropriate for
ANYONE'S workplace.
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      <li>Flock is a place for high quality discussions. Personal attacks,
insults, name-calling, and trolling all bring the quality of discourse
down. Don't engage in them! This is equally true for those who
transgress in "self defense". If someone provokes you, do not respond
in kind! There is a fuzzy definition of each of these transgressions,
so individual cases will result only in warnings. Repeated patterns of
transgression will result in removal from the list.
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     <li>Do not send virus warnings, chain letters, action alerts, "true"
stories, cookie recipes, attachments, pictures, or executables. If you
have something that you absolutely must let people know about, please
post a very short description & a request that people email you PRIVATELY
if they want a copy.
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     <li>Do not violate other people's copyright by sending copyrighted
articles to the list.
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     <li>Please keep subject lines free of profanity and references to illegal activities.
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     <li>Don't send administrative requests to the list.  Visit the mailman page for automated administration, or send mail to seventhmaze(at)byz.org for human beings.
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    <li> flock(at)mezziah.org goes to more than a hundred people.  
    <li> flock-owner(at)mezziah.org goes to a few people who run the list. 
    <li> http://www.mezziah.org/mailman/listinfo/flock is a computer, which can take care of all sorts of subscription-configuration needs with near-infinite patience.  Please choose the right address for your needs.
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