RE: For crissakes!

Elson Trinidad
Fri, 16 Jan 1998 14:37:25 -0800


At 10:33 AM 1/16/98 -0600, Dawn Kinishi wrote:
>Yes, I care and yes, it pisses me off too. I'm all for freedom of
>speech, so perhaps we can put in the subject field: "(Town, State)".
>That way we can program for the e-mail program to automatically delete
>those e-mails.

I disagree with you, it doesn't piss me off *BUT* I definitely agree with
your suggestion on putting location in the subject header; I personally get
pissed off when I see people post,
"My Band Tonight At The Whatever Club" etc. and 90% of the list doesn't
even know where it is. And even there were a couple of cases where there
was something in my town that I missed because they failed to list the
city. And many overlook the fact that it's going out to an international
audience.

I would say I know a lot of the listees in my area personally, and I can
always email them via a private CC: list but there are always many other
lurkers who never post to the list who can benefit from my Los Angeles
Happenings calendar or other events. And I'm sure the same can be said for
other people elsewhere.

But I do think there has to be a standard set for the benefit of all. I
think we've gone through this before, but for some reason people just
haven't stuck to it.

To Erik, our listadmin, I propose for list netiquette purposes that from
here on every local-specific event announcement begin with the location in
caps, followed by a colon: i.e.:

NEW YORK: Giant Step Calendar
LONDON, UK: Roni Size at Royal Albert Hall

Those are the only rules, but use common sense; There's also a "London" in
Canada, and in other places in the world. There are "Hollywood"s in both
California and Florida. And there
are a million and a half clubs in the world called "The Elbo Room" :) So be
as specific as common sense dictates.

Elson