DSSSList guidelines

Subject: DSSSList guidelines
From: DSSSList Owner <dssslist-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 18:09:20 -0400 (EST)
This information is posted to the DSSSList (and the DSSSList-Digest)
at regular intervals under the subject line "DSSSList guidelines".

Topics:
 - Posting
 - Before You Post...
 - Replies Go To The List
 - Use Short Quotes of Previous Messages in Replies
 - Attachments are Banned
 - Disposition Notifications are Banned
 - Cross-Posting
 - Daily Digest
 - Unsubscribing from DSSSList
 - Unsubscribing from the Digest
 - If you stop getting DSSSList messages
 - Archive
 - Archive Search
 - DSSSL Documentation Project
 - Reporting Bugs in Software
 - [OJ] and [OpenJade] in Subject Lines
 - "XS:" and "DD:" in Subject Lines
 - Further information on DSSSL
 - XSL-List -- The Open Forum on XSL
 - Contact

POSTING
=======

Only subscribers can post to DSSSList, and only from the address they
used when they subscribed.

There is no restriction on what may be posted provided it is related
to DSSSL.  Items related to XSL should be posted to the XSL-List.
When deciding between the two, consider if the item is of more
interest to those interested in DSSSL more than XSL or those
interested in XSL more than DSSSL.

Do not begin your subject line with "help" or "subscribe" since the
list software will bounce the message because it looks like is an
administrative request.

Do not use un-informative subject lines like "Urgent", "Easy
question", or "Problem".  Instead, use a meaningful subject line that
will make sense to the people whose help you are trying to get.

Both subscribers to DSSSList@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and subscribers to
DSSSList-Digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx should post their messages to
DSSSList@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, and the messages will be received by both
subscribers to the list and subscribers to the digest.

Do not start a new thread by replying to an unrelated message and just
changing the subject line since the header of your message will
contain references to the previous message and your new message will
appear in the archive as one of the replies to the original message.
It is better to start a new message for a new thread.


BEFORE YOU POST...
==================

1. Check that your question isn't already answered in the DSSSList
   archives at http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist/archive/.

2. If you are replying to a post, trim the quoted message to just the
   parts to which you are replying.


REPLIES GO TO THE LIST
======================

The reply address of DSSSList messages (and of digests) is
dssslist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx so REPLIES GO TO THE LIST BY DEFAULT.  If
you want to reply to just the author of a post, you should change the
"To:" field in your reply.


USE SHORT QUOTES OF PREVIOUS MESSAGES IN REPLIES
================================================

Please do not quote entire messages just to add a few lines at the
beginning or end.  Instead, quote the parts to which you are directly
replying or quote enough to establish the context.

Everybody on the list has already received the message that you are
quoting, and anyone searching the archive will find your message and
the previous message listed under the same thread.

Subscribers to the DSSSList will just ignore most of the quoted
messages and move to the next post, but subscribers to the DSSSList
Digest will mostly have to page past the quoted messages to reach the
next material in which they are interested in reading.


ATTACHMENTS ARE BANNED
======================

Since Mulberry's mailing lists have in the past been unwittingly used
for spreading viruses in e-mail attachments, all e-mail attachments
are banned from the DSSSList.

XSL stylesheets are XML files, and XML files are text files, so this
does not affect the majority of posts to the list since you can
include the files' text in the body of your message.  If you need to
refer to a binary file such as a PDF file, you should put the file on
a Web site or FTP site and include the file's URL in your DSSSList
post.

If you do include an attachment in your DSSSList post -- even a HTML
attachment -- your message will bounce.


DISPOSITION NOTIFICATIONS ARE BANNED
====================================

Disposition notification headers, which trigger "return receipt"
messages from some mail systems, are not allowed on DSSSList posts.
Disposition notifications don't make much sense on a mailing list, and
the headers are noted as being used to collect e-mail addresses for
later spamming, so messages with dispostion notification headers will
either bounce or have the dispostion notification header silently
removed.


CROSS-POSTING
=============

Cross-posting to the DSSSList and to another list, even to the
XSL-List, is often counter-productive unless everybody who replies to
the thread is on both lists.  Cross-posts from non-subscribers
continuing the thread will bounce, and DSSSList subscribers who are
not also on the other list will only see half of the thread, as will
those on the other list who are not also on the DSSSList.  Subscribers
to both lists will see two copies of the message, annoying them as
well.


DAILY DIGEST
============

Daily digests -- copies of a whole days DSSSList messages (or a 40,000
character chunk, whichever comes first) sent as one email message --
are available.  Not only is it one mail message containing all of that
day's DSSSList messages, it averages half the bytes of the individual
messages since it doesn't include the overhead of the mail headers
from each message.  To unsubscribe from the list and subscribe to the
digest, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with the following two
lines as the body of your message:

unsubscribe dssslist
subscribe dssslist-digest


UNSUBSCRIBING FROM DSSSLIST
===========================

To unsubscribe from the DSSSList, send mail to
majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe dssslist" as the body of
your message.


UNSUBSCRIBING FROM THE DIGEST
=============================

To unsubscribe from the DSSSList Digest, send mail to
majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe dssslist-digest" as the
body of your message.


IF YOU STOP GETTING DSSSLIST MESSAGES
=====================================

Ordinarily, mail bounces back to dssslist-owner only because a user's
account has been closed on their system without their unsubscribing
from the list.  If mail to an address bounces for an extended period,
that address may be removed from the list.

If you stop receiving DSSSList message, you may have been removed
because mail to you was bouncing.  You are not being picked on, and
you can just rejoin the list.


ARCHIVE
=======

DSSSList messages are archived at
http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist/archive/.

The DSSSList mailbox file is available in yearly chunks at
ftp://ftp.mulberrytech.com/pub/dsssl/dssslist/mailarchive.


ARCHIVE SEARCH
==============

A search facility for the DSSSList archive is available from the
archive pages.


DSSSL DOCUMENTATION PROJECT
===========================

The DSSSL documentation project is a collaborative effort by DSSSL
users to write and disseminate documentation on all aspects of DSSSL
for the purposes of:

 - introducing DSSSL to new users
 - education for both new and experienced users
 - assistance for people using DSSSL

The project draws on the combined experience of present users of
DSSSL, principally those subscribed to the DSSSList mailing list
(which also hosts the discussion between project participants).  You
are free to use the material produced by the documentation project,
and the project needs your contribution if it is to grow.

See http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dsssldoc.


REPORTING BUGS IN SOFTWARE
==========================

Bugs in software should firstly be reported to its author rather than
to the DSSSList.

[OJ] and [OpenJade] IN SUBJECT LINES
====================================

Subject lines beginning with [OJ] and [OpenJade] are related to the
development of OpenJade, the collaborative successor to James Clark's
Jade.

See http://www.netfolder.com/DSSSL/.


"XS: " AND "DD: " IN SUBJECT LINES
==================================

Subject lines beginning with "XS: " in the archive are posts related
to the discussion of xml-style.  xml-style was a precursor to the
current XSL effort.  The appropriate place to discuss XSL is the
XSL-List.  See http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list.

Subject lines beginning with "DD: " are posts related to the DSSSL
documentation project.  See http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dsssldoc.


FURTHER INFORMATION ON DSSSL
============================

Two excellent sources of information about DSSSL are the DSSSL section
of Robin Cover's SGML/XML Web Page at
http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/dsssl.html and James Clark's DSSSL
page at http://www.jclark.com/dsssl.

The DSSSL Documentation Project is at
http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dsssldoc/.

The OpenJade page is at http://www.netfolder.com/DSSSL/.

The DSSSL auto-faq is at http://trisome.com/auto_faq/jade-Dsssl/.


XSL-LIST -- THE OPEN FORUM ON XSL
=================================

Mulberry Technologies also provides the XSL-List -- the open forum on
XSL.  For subscription information and the XSL-List archive, see
http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list.


CONTACT
=======

If you have any questions or problems, please contact
dssslist-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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