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Re: WebAIM List Update, Etiquette, and Contest

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From: Rakesh
Date: Apr 17, 2012 11:00AM

Really a great news Jared. Thank you Web AIM for providing such great
platform to discuss many important accessibility issues. Also I would
like to thank each member of the list for providing valuable suggestions
and guidance when ever required.
Thanks & Regards
Rakesh



On 4/17/2012 10:20 PM, Jared Smith wrote:
> WebAIM List Subscribers-
>
> The WebAIM Discussion List has been active for 12 and a half years now
> and is quickly approaching our 20,000th message. We estimate that
> close to 18 million distinct e-mails have been distributed on the
> list. When the list first started in 1999, WebAIM staff were simply
> e-mailing each other, sometimes forcing conversations to try and
> invite participation. We're thrilled with the success of this list
> over the years. Someone has described it as the office water cooler of
> web accessibility - a great place to hang out and chat about something
> we're all passionate about.
>
> To celebrate the success of the list, we thought we'd throw a little
> contest. We've picked a number near 20,000. The subscriber that posts
> the message coinciding with that number will win a WAVE T-shirt and
> some other fine prizes. Please don't post unnecessarily in hope of
> winning. The winning post will likely be sent in the next month or so.
>
>
> We also take this opportunity to remind you of some mailing list best
> practices. The online list archives are available online at
> http://webaim.org/discussion/archives This is a valuable resources
> that gets 10s of thousands of views each year. To keep the list and
> archives usable, we kindly ask you to:
>
> - Trim messages to only the relevant portion of the conversation you
> are replying to. If there's any question, simply delete all previous
> messages from your response. Most modern e-mail clients provide
> threading that make it easy for users to get previous content without
> it being repeated in every message. We recommend bottom posting (your
> response would appear below the trimmed, quoted portion of the
> previous message) or inline posting, rather than top posting (your
> message appears at the top of the entire quoted messages you're
> replying to).
>
> - Keep Subject lines descriptive and succinct, just as you would web
> page titles. If replying to a message, reply directly to that message
> without modifying the Subject line. This keeps the mail thread in
> tact. However, if you are a list digest subscriber, please modify the
> subject line to be "Re: " and then the exact Subject of the message
> you are replying to.
>
> - Make sure your vacation auto-responders are NOT set to send to the
> list. If you cannot customize this, please ensure that the word
> "vacation" or "out of the office" appears in the Subject line and the
> list will filter them out.
>
> - Keep message signatures to a minimum. Your full page e-mail legal
> disclaimer and confidentiality notice carries no legal weight anyway,
> so please don't include it on list messages.
>
> - Avoid attachments. The list allows them up to 100KB, but only send
> them if necessary. Ensure any attachments are in an accessible and
> readily supported format. Attachments will not appear in the list
> archives.
>
>
> Thank you all for your participation. We're looking forward to the
> next 20,000 messages.
>
> WebAIM Staff
> > >