Share ideas, experiences and establish contact with other users of our service via our new Origins Network Discussion Group. Membership is free and voluntary. Any member can contact the group by mailing originsnetwork@yahoogroups.com (see How to subscribe). Members receive emails that members send to the group. Members can also chat to each other in real time using the web interface.
Message delivery options
When you subscribe you can select your personal delivery mode to be either:
Full-text digest: At the end of the day you will receive all of the
messages sent that day in full in one email.
Summaries: At the end of the day you will receive one email
containing all of the subject lines of the messages with a link to each.
Web only: You will receive no emails - you need to look at the group's home page to read messages.
If you wish to select one of these options, rather than just to receive all of
the emails individually, go to the group's home page and click the Join this group! link.
Moderation
ALL messages will be moderated by the group owner to ensure that the content is
suitable for displaying on the web and for emailing to the group members. This
results in a delay between sending messages to the group and the messages
reaching members but it allows us to block mail that abuses the service.
Please read and adhere to the guidelines below. If your messages do not conform
to these guidelines they will not be sent to the discussion group.
Guidelines
These guidelines are not an attempt to limit the content or style of
postings, but to help ensure that postings can be moderated, read and
understood with greater ease. Some of the guidelines are intended to improve
the relevance of postings to the members of the group.
All messages MUST be sent as plain text only.
Messages sent in HTML format will not be posted.
If you are unsure of how to check the format your emails are sent in, please contact
originsnetwork-owner@yahoogroups.com stating what mail program you use, eg Outlook Express, Netscape Mail.
To decrease the size of the emails, if you are replying to a message please DO NOT include the full original message in your reply. Put the subject of the original message prefixed with "Re:" in the Subject line of your reply. Put a couple of lines at the top of the message to indicate the author, subject and message number if known. Please cut out the original message to reduce the amount of unnecessary text and paste any text from the original message into the relevant section of the reply.
Keep it clean and basic - If the original message has been inserted automatically or in full, your message will be REJECTED.
NOTE: The above guidelines will be enforced rigorously. If your message does not comply it will be rejected.
Replies to messages should have the same subject line as the original message (with "Re:" inserted in front)
Recommendations:
If your email is a message of thanks to
an individual which contains no new information, the email
should be sent direct to that individual.
If when replying you feel that your
comments will only be of relevance to the person you are
replying to, please do not post the message the group - send it
to the individual.
If you are posting a new message that is of a specific nature and you would
prefer to have any replies sent direct to yourself, please mention this and
insert your email address under your name at the end of the email.
Please remove any "white space" and "rubbish" text in your email. (Such as "Do
you Yahoo?" and "To unsubscribe....".) This will reduce the time it takes users
to download the messages and makes the digest emails easier to read.
If you want to include an attachment send the email direct to the moderator@origins.net with the file attached. The moderator will then
upload the file to the attachment vault. (Refer to the attachment within your
email, which will be forwarded to the group.
What you gain by following the guidelines
The guidelines should reduce the amount of irrelevant text in messages making
them easier and clearer to read.
If you are following replies to other messages/topics, it will be easy to
recognise which messages are connected since they will have common subject
lines.
If you do not want to read replies to other people change your personal
delivery mode to Summaries. At the end of every day you will receive the
subjects of every message sent that day, each one will have a link to the web
page containing the message. Because of the guidelines you will be able to
select messages without a "Re:" prefix knowing that they are new messages not
replies.
Service abuse
Any "abuse" of the service will result in permanent termination of the members
subscription. "Abuse" includes, but is not limited to, trying to send adverts
to the group, sending offensive material either graphic or textual or block
emailing on a large scale. It is the responsibility of the group members to
ensure that the service is used in a correct manner.
Members' personal information
Members' information, such as email addresses, will only be available to
Origins Network staff, and WILL NOT be given to any other organisation other than
any future parent, partner or successor company of Origins Network. The only time
that email addresses will be available to other members is when a member sends
mail to the group; however this is an inherent property of sending email.
The discussion group has been set up and is moderated by Origins Network staff but the facility is hosted by Yahoo, to which any queries about service problems or interruptions should be directed. Help is available from Yahoo on all aspects of their discussion groups.