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Please participate freely. This is the only way you and others will benefit from this list.

We welcome spirited discussion and debate. But, please avoid personal attacks and keep the language clean. There is a world of difference between saying "I don't think that is a good idea and here's why" and saying "That's an idiotic idea and you're an idiot for bringing it up."

We will permit commercial messages as long as they are appropriate to this group and are not excessive in length or frequency. We do not endorse or guarantee any product or service offered by anyone on this discussion list.

Almost all the members of the discussion list are other broker/consultants. So there is really no need to promote your broker/consultant business to this group. However, if you are a funding source or if you have a product or service that would be beneficial to other broker/consultants in their business then that would be fine.

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In addition, some members of the list, like myself, purposely use an email reader that does not render HTML so as to avoid those dangers. Stationery and fancy fonts are not needed to communicate effectively in this group.

If you need to know how to change the HTML default behavior in your mail program look in the preferences or options area of your email program to see how to change sending email from HTML to TEXT. There may be a pull-down menu item, such as under Format in Outlook Express, where you can toggle between HTML & TEXT on a message by message basis. If necessary, check the help file, use one of the internet search engines to find instructions or ask someone for help.

If you refuse to post in plain text instead of HTML at least post with both plain text and HTML so those of us who don't read HTML posts will get to see your message.

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When the subject of a discussion changes be sure to change the subject line of your email so other members will know what is being discussed in any given thread. If you start a new topic, don't just use the last message's subject. Change it to something meaningful.

If you want your message read by as many people as possible make your subject line as specific as you can. Subject lines like "Help" or "Why?" won't get you much help or many questions answered.

A short specific title like "Need small factor" or "How to get government vendor list?" will generate a lot more readers and replies.

If you have several unrelated questions please put them in separate messages. It will be easier to choose a good subject line for each question. Members who might have an answer for you will find the question easier. It will create a discussion thread for that specific topic.

On the other hand, if you have several closely related questions on the same topic then you can and should include them in the same message. In this case the answer to one question may be dependent on another question in the message.

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