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RE: Welcome to the Neil Diamond mailing list!
Hello Paul
You are undertaking a big project,, but it will be worth it..
To answer a few of you questions:
My preference is to recieve messages individually
Your guide for the filter:
yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes
(delete is easy to hit if they do not want to read it)
Name,,
Skybird's news
or
Songbird's news
On Sun, 1 Jun 1997 15:09:50 -0400 (EDT) Paul Maclauchlan wrote:
>
>Hi. My name is Paul Maclauchlan, you have all replied to my posting on
>the Sony Neil Diamond message board regarding a Neil Diamond mailing list.
>There doesn't seem to be an exisiting list, so I have formed one.
>
>Before I make a more public announcement, there are a few administrative
>items I'd like to clear up.
>
>For the time being, you will need to send submissions for the mailing list
>to "paulmac@vex.net". I am looking into getting an appropriate account
>created to receive and send messages.
>
>I plan to send out a "digest" of messages each day, containing all the
>messages sent to the list. This could me changed to each message being
>sent out individually. Please let me know your preference.
>
>I also plan to moderate the list. That means I will filter out
>inappropriate submissions (spam, non-Neil advertising, etc). I will work
>on a list of guidelines that I will follow in deciding if a message will
>be approved. I'd like your help in developing those guidelines.
>
>Please let me know if you thing the following should be allowed on the
>list:
>- messages announcing commercial Neil products (albums, souvenirs, etc)
>- messages announcing commercial interests that *may* sell Neil items
>(music stores, magazines)
>- reprints of Neil articles from newspapers and magazines
>- personal messages with no new content ("Thanks for yping that article,
>Paul")
>- trading of Neil items (books, T-shirts, CDs, records)
>- trading of bootleg Neil items (concert tapes, radio interviews)
>- non-Neil topics (favourite singers besides Neil, other current events)
>
>My personal feelings are: Yes, No, Yes, No, Yes, Yes, No
>
>Finally, I'd like to select a "name" for the mailing list. I will also
>use that name for a web site devoted to Neil and the list (including an
>archive of messages sent to the list). Here are some names I've thought
>of, in the order that I like them. Please feel free to contribute other
>suggestions:
>
>Beautiful Noise
>Soolaimon
>Hello Again
>I Am The Tune
>The Gift Of Song
>Glory Road
>Morningside
>Brooklyn Roads
>Heartlight
>Skybird
>
>I am looking forward to hearing from you!
>
>--
>.../Paul Maclauchlan
>paulmac@vex.net http://www.vex.net/~paulmac
>"What a beautiful noise coming into my room
> And it's begging for me just to give it a tune"/ND'76
>
>