Rules of the Road for Tic-Tech (as of January 2, 2001). These guidelines
are emailed to members on the first of every month.

Tic-Tech is meant to be a forum for discussion and sharing of technology
related education issues in Seattle - and beyond.  This broad description
means that issues discussed may be wide ranging. Tic-Tech is a moderated
list.  Messages submitted to the list are approved by the moderator before
they are distributed to subscribers.

There is a web site for Tic-Tech, which has complete information on
joining and leaving the list, a Questions section, a Feedback to the
moderator page, and this Rules of the Road document:
http://fp.seattleschools.org/fpclass/tic-tech/  This address appears at
the end of every Tic-Tech message.

As of October 20, 2000, all list messages are archived on the web at
http://www.learningspace.org:88/hypermail/tictech/  There is a link to
this archive from the Tic-Tech on the Web site, mentioned above. Messages 
can be sorted by date, author, subject, or thread - really handy for
looking though recent conversations in order, seeing who has written 
lately, reading that message deleted too quickly, etc.  It is also real
easy to respond to the poster of a message from this interface.  A new
archive will be set up for 2001, and messages from 2000 will be made
available in another location, to keep the long list of messages from
getting too cumbersome to look through efficiently.  Plans are under way
for a search engine for this message archive.

Posting and Replying Guidelines:
1. Your name and email address MUST be included in messages posted to
tic-tech.  I've lately been manually adding email addresses, and in some
cases, names, to messages.  Please include BOTH when you send a message.
Not only is it good etiquette and a nice courtesy, it makes life a lot
easier for those who would like to respond personally to you.

2. When replying to someone's message, include enough of the original
message so people will know exactly what you're responding to.  It's not
necessary to include the whole original message, just enough so folks
remember what the original question or point was.
 
3. Not allowed: attachments, commercial advertisements, profanity,
political agendas, flames, personal attacks, etc.  If you have an
attachment (say a Word document) that you'd like to send, please post it
as plain text (copy and paste works pretty well here).

4. Please post messages in plain text.  For Exchange/Outlook users, go to
"Format", and then "Plain Text" before sending.  If you post an html
formatted message, it may not make it to tic-tech looking quite the way
you sent it.

5. To SEND a message to Tic-Tech, email to tic-tech@tic.ssd.k12.wa.us  Be
aware that a normal REPLY will go to the whole Tic-Tech list.  It is
certainly possible to reply to only the sender - just be sure the address
you want is in the "To" field.

Joining and Leaving:
To subscribe to Tic-Tech, send a message to tic-tech@tic.ssd.k12.wa.us
and in the message body type "subscribe" (without quotes).
To unsubscribe, send a message to tic-tech@tic.ssd.k12.wa.us and in the
message body type "unsubscribe" (without quotes).

All of the above are explained in much more enthralling detail at the
Tic-Tech on the Web site at http://fp.seattleschools.org/fpclass/tic-tech/

Happy New Year!
Moderator Mark

Mark Ahlness
mahlness@cks.ssd.k12.wa.us
Teacher, grade three at:
Arbor Heights Elementary School
http://www.halcyon.com/arborhts/