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Re: WebAIM List Update, Etiquette, and Contest

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From: Jeevan Reddy
Date: Apr 22, 2012 8:55AM

Thank you Jared and WEBAIM community for providing a fantastic
platform to discuss accessibility related stuff....
it's been awesome to get to know that our 20,000th message is going to
be delivered. CONGRATULATIONS...

On 4/17/12, Rakesh < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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
>> >> >> >
> > > >


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Best Regards,
*Jeevan Reddy,
Accessibility Developer,
Onya Digital Solutions Pvt Ltd,
Bangalore, India.
*