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This acts by means of a FAQ/AUP for the Bucalist mailshot service – more info can be accessed via the menu system above.
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Basic Rules and Guidelines
- When you subscribe you should get a confirmation message when the list controllers have authorised your request to get on – but you’ll soon notice as the odd messages will start flying.
- Send plain text e-mail – no HTML messages, no drippy fonts etc !
- Don’t send any attachments unless they are less that 100Kb in size.
- Bucalist goes to peoples work and home, so you have to be sensible with the subject titles.
- Please avoid sending a message to the list and a bunch of other people that you know at the same time.
PLEASE NOTE: this means total size… so don’t mail 97 copies of 40K files in a message or we’ll jump up and down a lot. Likewise, don’t send 97 individual messages each with a 40K file in ‘em… that’ll cause some pain also.
Most recipients on the list prefer you to mail links to things rather than the files themselves.
Attachments means ‘files’. If you were to send a graphic or a movie or whatever then you would be sending an attachment. On the Bucalist it is considered ‘bad form’ to send any attachment that is bigger than 100Kb in size (you can find out a file’s size by right clicking on it on your PC and selecting ‘Properties’ from the context menu). I can’t remember how to do this on a Mac.
When you see summat on the web that you want to mail up about, just mail the link (for example – http://www.buca.org/b-list/ ) rather than sending the whole page as an attachment etc.
Some browsers have a habit of allowing you to ‘mail this page to a friend’ which in fact mails the entire page (warts and all). This tends to get on everyone’s tits… (its generally bad form on any .net based community).
If you want to mail a ‘page’ to someone, Copy and Paste the URL out of the text line at the top of your web browser.
For example, if you browsing www.buca.org on a PC, you could highlight the address in the URL window, press CTRL+C to copy it, and then CTRL+V to paste the information into a mail message. Again, memories of Mac usage are in the distance so you’ll have to work out the keys yourself (although I’m pretty sure that they are the same)
Like don’t send a message called ‘Granny Gang Bang Cock Fest’ as that’s more than likely going to get trapped at someone’s work and get them (and potentially you) into trouble.
And I get loads of hassle from some people.
What happens is that loads of ‘numpties’ (see, another Scot-Term to trade) tend to do a ‘reply-to-all’ and then we get weeks of messages that have nothing to do with us.
Example: say I sent a message TO: John, TO:bucalist, TO:bloke_only_john_and_i_know.
Then ‘bloke_only_john_and_i_know’ hits ‘Reply-To-All’ in response to the original message then everyone on the Bucalist would get his response. This can be pretty annoying if people don’t know who he is, more so if his reply is nothing to do with the original message (this would be know as Off-Topic if it changed subject context).
On the whole, this isn’t the main problem though, its when somebody mails 15 people and a copy to the bucalist and then they all start doing a ‘reply-to-all’. You can see how this would multiply out.
And no, we’re not going to close the list as we all run under too many aliases to make that by any means workable.
Oh, please take care when choosing whom to reply to – about once a week, some spoon always forgets this and does a personal reply and accidentally mails all of us. !
On Topic / Off Topic
There is no real On Topic definition.
This is deliberate: It opens the list to all types of discussion and wibble and it allows the admin people to act as a Fascist Dictator Bastards from Hell if they get angered, irritated or simply bored. This is surely a good thing, and doesn’t happen nearly often enough (though we are working on it 
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However, thats said – if you change the topic that you are discussing, please modify the subject header to reflect this.
One final note – although there is no fixed topic structure, this is not meant to serve as a forum for acting like a twat – ifyou wish to beat someone round the head for their pollitcal views or small spelling errors then fuck off and do it somewhere else.
Title Blocks / Filtering
We asked this question. Nine out of ten cats preferred it.
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Q.
Do people on here consider it a good and wholesome idea to setup a convention that you put ‘Title Blocks’ of text in the subject lines when targeting subsets of the blisters?
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This allows people to then setup filters (if they were so inclined / have issues) on their incoming mail and such like.[1]
It is considered a practice of good and wholesome nature and these are the initial subsets that we came up with.
Please try to remember to use these as it help sort out the varying subject matter that gets posted about.
Location Based
[edin] – Edinburgh
[abdn] – Aberdeen
[lon] – London
[nyc] – New York
Service Based
[faq] Acceptable Use / Frequently Asked Questions
[new] – New Additions – to Bucalist, website etc
[email] – E-mail address updates etc
Event Based
[event] – general event notification
[buca run] – obvious
Subject Based
[geek] – tech based questions and discussions
[kitten] – weirdo mail !
[rant] – mail of a ranting nature, asbestos may be required
[game] – games obviously
[flash] – links to flash based items
Highly Dodgy Web Link
[NSFW] – Not Safe For Work – USE THIS IF CONTENT DODGY
Sensible additional suggestions welcome ( Please contact us at info [at] buca.org )
Generalities
What we do ask is that you attempt to follow basic netiquette, any nasty deviation from this principle will involve nasty things happening.
So set your system clock to the correct time and try behaving in a vaguely civil way to everyone else on the list.
The traffic can be anything from 5 or 6 to 30 or 40 e-mails a day, though it can climb much higher on occasion (and tends to get quieter at the weekend).
Introduce yourself…. it helps A LOT.
Well, that’s the lot. In closing we’d just like to add that if you leave we’ll all think you’re a cissy-wuss and we will have no choice but to kick the bacon and egg flan out of you. Hope your mail software is up to the task!
[*1*] Last Author Date 14/9/2010
Credits – Tales, Chemo. Please contact us at < info [at] buca.org >
Credits also to Clive Dolphin and Dishmop Dave from whom I have
blatantly stolen some of the wording for this page.
Welcome to the desert of the real
And, we’ll all burn in hell for our trespasses at the end of the day.
