[Buddha-l] Fwd: ADMIN> Basic points for posting on H-Buddhism (Muller)

[Bankei]

Look at 'Chuck's' signature! Seems like a full signature to me - assuming
he has no surname and his first name is actually Chuck. I

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On 23 January 2012 07:38, Richard Hayes <rhayes at unm.edu> wrote:

> Dear denizens
>
> It look as though buddha-l is not the only list with a highly educated but
> oddly ineducable writership. I applaud what Chuck Müller has written in the
> following forward message and would like for buddha-l subscribers to comply
> with the same guidelines mutatis mutandis.
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Charles Muller <acmuller at JJ.EM-NET.NE.JP>
> Subject: [H-BUDDHISM] ADMIN> Basic points for posting on H-Buddhism
> (Muller)
> Date: January 20, 2012 21:50:22 MST
> To: H-BUDDHISM at H-NET.MSU.EDU
> Reply-To: H-NET Buddhist Scholars Information Network <
> H-BUDDHISM at H-NET.MSU.EDU>
>
> Dear Colleagues:
>
> Since I took control of the list last Sunday, amazingly, more than 4/5 of
> the mail that has come in has been either:
>
> (1) Sent to me at my personal email address,
>
> (2) Sent without a full signature,
>
> or,
>
> (3) Top-posted.
>
>
> Rather than doing it like the above, please:
>
> (1) Send your mail for H-Buddhism to <h-buddhism at h-net.msu.edu>.
>
> (2) Sign your mail with your name and some sort of indication of your
> affiliation or geographic location.
>
> (3) Do not leave the remnants of previous discussions at the bottom of
> your mail. Unless you are specifically referencing some documenation,
> your signature should be the last thing at the bottom of your mail.
>
> Up to now we have been responding to these errors of sloppiness with a
> kind request to the senders to revise their messages. But with the time it
> takes us to do
> this for each message, eventually we're going to feel like giving up and
> just deleting the messages. I'm definitely not in favor of going the
> other direction and turning H-Buddhism into an "anything goes" list.
>
> Most subscribers to H-Buddhism are people with advanced degrees. I
> don't see why this has to be so hard.
>
> Regards,
>
> Chuck
>
> ----------------------
>
> :End Forwarded Message
>
> I think the reference to the "other direction" for becoming an "anything
> goes" list may be an oblique reference to buddha-l, which has a
> well-deserved reputation among Buddhist studies scholars for
> anything-goes-ness. Myself, I love H-BUDDHISM and would find my life
> impoverished without it, but I also cherish the deeply annoying "anything
> goes" qualities of BUDDHA-L.
>
> Forwardly yours,
> Richard Hayes
> Chair, Department of Philosophy
> University of New Mexico
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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