# \[e-drug\] E-drug rules - reminder

**URL:** <https://talk.edrugplus.org/t/e-drug-e-drug-rules-reminder/7825>\
**Category:** e-drug\
**Created:** [April 2, 2000, 7:04pm UTC](https://talk.edrugplus.org/t/e-drug-e-drug-rules-reminder/7825 "2000-04-02T19:04:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![myhr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@myhr](https://talk.edrugplus.org/u/myhr)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2000, 7:04pm UTC](https://talk.edrugplus.org/t/e-drug-e-drug-rules-reminder/7825/1 "2000-04-02T19:04:58Z")

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E-drug: E-drug rules - reminder  
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E-drug is a moderated network. The moderators receive a lot of messages of  
administrative matter, i.e. which has been sent to the wrong address - or  
messages which have a format that messes up the layout. It is therefore  
timely to again remind E-druggers of some technical rules:

- please delete the message you are replying to

- please send plain text messages to E-drug. Avoid HTML (hyper text markup  
language) messages as they mess up the layout. HTML looks like this:

\<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"\>  
\<HTML\>  
\<HEAD\>

\<META content=3Dtext/html;charset=3Diso-8859-1 =  
http-equiv=3DContent-Type\>  
\<META content=3D'"MSHTML 4.72.2106.6"' name=3DGENERATOR\>  
\</HEAD\>  
\<BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff\>  
\<DIV\>\<FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2\>Dear E-druggers,\</FONT\>\</DIV\>  
\<DIV\>\<FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2\>\</FONT\>&nbsp;\</DIV\>  
\<DIV\>\<FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2\>Is there any information about =  
banning of=20  
Nimesulide in Italy or any other countries.\</FONT\>\</DIV\>

- please set line width to max 75 characters (otherwise the moderators must  
reformat too long lines; some e-druggers still send 132 character wide  
messages which scroll off the screen)

- please DO NOT put an automatic "out of office" system on the email  
address where you subscribe to E-drug, as this sends a message back to  
E-drug every time we send you a message. I suggest you create a separate  
email address for email conferences if you need to inform your business  
colleagues that you're out. We normally unsubscribe those "out of office"  
offenders!

- send SUBSCRIBE and UNSUBSCRIBE messages to majordomo@usa.healthnet.org  
and please NOT to e-drug@usa.healthnet.org

- you can only UNsubscribe from the same email address. If you want to  
unscubscribe, and you started using another email address in the meantime,  
ask the moderator to do it manually at owner-e-drug@usa.healthnet.org

- each E-drug message should have a 'signature' file with at least  
name, affiliation and email. Tel, fax and snailmail are nice to have.  
This helps other e-druggers to contact you directly.

- private replies are better made by using the FORWARD button! If you  
use the REPLY button, your private message goes to all 1260 E-druggers  
unless the moderator filters it out.

- drug information questions should preferably be sent to INDICES rather  
than to E-drug. Send to indices@usa.healthnet.org

- the E-drug archives are available at our website:  
[http://www.healthnet.org/programs/edrug.html](http://www.healthnet.org/programs/edrug.html)

- french speaking E-druggers should consider E-MED at  
e-med@usa.healthnet.org

- a spanish speaking E-drug exists but is not very active: E-MEDICAMENTOS  
at e-medicamentos@egroups.com

- if you get irritated by too many E-drug messages, consider switching to  
E-drug-digest. This Healthnet service 'collates' e-drug messages until they  
reach 24 KBytes, and then sends it in one bunch. You could do that as  
follows: send email to majordomo@usa.healthnet.org  
with the text:

unsubscribe e-drug  
subscribe e-drug-digest  
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Thanks for your collaboration!

Wilbert Bannenberg  
E-drug moderator  
WilbertBannenberg@compuserve.com

Kirsten Myhr  
E-drug co-moderator  
myhr@online.no

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