Dear Member, Currently, an interesting discussion is underway based on Prof. Arunachalam's posting related to the writing of Liz Lyon. While the discussions are most welcome but members should keep in mind that while replying to a posting only the specific portion of the original posting should be included, preferably at top before the reply portion begins. What's been happening now is that with a very few exceptions, rest of the members who participate in a discussion, include the entire message to which they are replying to. This practice will unnecessarily bloat the size of the messages and many a times fellow members may loose track of the on-going discussion. As a reminder, I'm including the guidelines of this list for your perusal. Thanks for your cooperation. With best regards, - Moderator, LIS-Forum Discussion List NCSI, IISc, Bangalore, India LIS-Forum guidelines -------------------- 1. Mails to LIS-Forum should be sent in "Plain text format" only. This can be ensured by making suitable changes in your mail client software. For example, if you have a Yahoo! email id, then to set the email composing mode to 'Plain Text', all that it takes is a few mouse clicks, as indicated below: - Login to your account - Click on 'Option' (right below the search box) - Scroll down to locate 'General Preferences' and click on it - Scroll down to locate 'Composing E-mails' and check the 'Compose messages as plain text' radio button. The above actions will ensure that your mail will be sent in Plain Text' format. 2. Mails with attachments (.doc, .pdf, etc) will not be approved for distribution. Such mails will be discarded. 3. Appropriate 'Subject' should be provided for every posting.. 4. When responding to emails, please retain ONLY any relevant portion of the original, if needed - at the TOP. Do not include one or more threads. 5. Please post mails only for discussing Library and Information Science and related issues. If seeking help (eg an article) - please mention that you have tried other resources and are asking for help from the forum, only because you have not succeeded from other resources 6. Do ensure that your complete Signature details are present (Name, organization, address, phone/fax nos) 7. If the content of your mail is already available online then your mail should just provide the gist of such content and provide its correct URL. 8. Mails meant for LIS-forum should be sent only to lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in and not to any other email id 9. Messages are to be posted without the covering note to the moderator. 10. Do not compose the entire mail in capital letters