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The following are deemed
appropriate topics for the CFF List:
- CFF Shows and
activities.
- CFF Show rules,
scoring and Breed Standards.
- CFF Constitution and
By-Laws, registration, elections and ballots.
- CFF Board actions,
proposals before the Board.
- CFF financial and
legal issues, Central Office procedures.
- Feline health and
welfare as related to CFF.
- Rescue programs and
Disaster Relief activities.
- Other feline-related
CFF programs.
- General aspects of
the CFF judging and Clerking programs.
- All aspects of CFF
show production including management, facilities,·
exhibiting, publicity, equipment, benching, scheduling, entry
clerking, and spectators.
- All CFF publications
including the Yearbook, Rankings, the CFF web site, and CFF
Board minutes.
- Messages to
congratulate on wins at shows or in POP end of year wins.
- Funny stories about
things that happen on way to shows, or at shows.
- Niceties that have
been observed at other Association shows, in hopes of adding
even more class or excitement to our shows.
The following topics are deemed
inappropriate for the CFF list, and may be challenged by the list
moderator. Continued deliberate abuse of the list may result in
removal of the offender.
- Personal messages,
except to let us all know of exceptional news items (ie:
marriages, births, deaths, emergencies of members or close
family members that most of us know).
- Advertising of any
kind (however, the recommendation of products by list members
who are not vendors of the product and publication of addresses
where products can be obtained is permitted).
- Computer virus
warnings to the list are also prohibited as the vast majority of
these are hoaxes, and in any case are irrelevant to the topic of
the list.
- Personal attacks
of any kind. List members are expected to conduct themselves as
though they were raised by humans with manners, not as if they
were raised by wolves. It is always more enlightening to others
if you write about what you know, rather than what you speculate
about others!
There are some simple rules
of list etiquette or "netiquette" with which you should become
familiar:
- Be brief. Many list
members pay for their Internet service by the volume of email
they receive. Also, it takes a long time to download large
messages and some ISPs charge their customers for the amount of
time spent online. Don't waste your list mates' money.
- Don't address your
message to more than one mailing list. This not only leads to
enormous Internet traffic, but also creates confusion and split
discussions (not to mention split personalities). If you wish
to "move" a discussion to a more appropriate mailing list, it's
only considerate for you to summarize the preceding discussion
(summarize does NOT mean to quote pages and pages verbatim!) so
that readers new to the discussion have a chance to understand
the opinions being presented. Make it clear where you want the
discussion to reside.
- When replying to a
message, include ONLY enough of the original message so the list
members will know what you're responding to. Do NOT include the
ENTIRE message. Trim signatures.
- Keep your text lines
under 80 characters in width. Some email software will not wrap
long lines automatically.
- When a discussion
drifts from a subject relevant to the list, take the discussion
to private email.
- NEVER post private
email to the list without the permission of the original sender.
- Anything
inappropriate for an audience of several hundred should be sent
privately, not to the entire list.
- DO NOT send email
attachments to the list. Not all Internet mail programs
understand attachments, and certainly not everyone is using the
same type of computer or word processor.
- No mime messages as
they clog up many a machine.
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