[Imagination Club] Admin: General info about the Imagination Club

[Jeffrey Baumgartner]

General info about the Imagination Club...

The Imagination Club is an e-mail forum for playing with 
ideas. The aim is to stretch our imagination, share ideas 
and have a little fun. Here is a lot of general information 
about the club. If you've got three minutes, I recommend 
you give it a read.

CHALLENGES

Members of the Imagination Club regularly post challenges 
where everyone is invited (indeed, encouraged) to share 
ideas and build upon each others' ideas. 

If you want to post a challenge, please follow these two 
guidelines:

1) Please do post your challenge!!! That's what the 
imagination club is all about.

2) Please start your challenge as a new e-mail addressed to 
imagine at lists.supertrade.com. Do not reply to an existing e-
mail. If you post your challenge as a new e-mail, it 
creates a new 'thread'. That tells other Imagination 
Clubbers that your e-mail is a new challenge and not part 
of an existing challenge. Likewise, your challenge is a 
unique thread in the archives 
(http://davie.textdrive.com/pipermail/imagine/) - making it 
easier for people to follow in the future.

Of course when you reply to a challenge, you may and should 
reply to the e-mail posting the challenge. This keeps your 
reply in the same thread.

Challenges can be anything that encourages creative 
thinking. Challenges can be based on real world issues or 
come from your imagination. Don't be afraid. Challenge us!

INTRODUCTIONS

Feel free to introduce yourself to the Imagination Club. We 
are a friendly little group and we are keen to get to know 
you better. 

ADMIN

>From time to time, I shall post an ADMIN e-mail to this 
list. This is to remind people about how the Imagination 
Club works.

A COUPLE OF RULES

There are just a couple of rules for the imagination club. 
Follow them and we'll all be happy...

1) All e-mails must be relevant. Highly commercial e-mails 
(particularly spam) will be deleted. While you are welcome 
to post a challenge related to your business or even 
respond to a challenge describing how your product or 
service could be a solution, you cannot post blatant sales 
pitches. 

2) No attachments. To prevent any possibility of viruses, I 
will delete any e-mail that includes an attachment. If you 
want to refer to a document, either copy and past part of 
the document into your e-mail or upload the document to the 
web and provide us with a link.

RECOMMENDATION

I recommend you turn off html, rich text and any other 
features in your e-mail when posting to the Imagination 
Club. HTML and custom formats do not display consistently 
across various e-mail programmes. What might look really 
arty on your MS Outlook might be unreadable on my Pegasus 
or someone else's Lotus Notes. Moreover, HTML and custom 
formats do not archive well. (Archiving is entirely 
automatic and it is impossible to edit the archives)

I will not delete formatted e-mails. But they may not be 
readable to some members of the Imagination Club.

Incidentally, I recommend you turn off formatting for all 
your e-mails for the reasons described above. But, of 
course, that's your own decision.

QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS

Please feel free to send your questions and comments 
directly to me at jeffreyb at jpb.com - or to the entire 
imagination club - whichever you feel is most important.

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All the best!

Jeffrey Baumgartner
Your Fearless Moderator

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