PBS responses
Mary Sue Ittner (Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:31:03 PDT)

Dear Josh,

Every one who subscribes to this list gets a welcome message than
includes the guidelines for our list. It doesn't have anything in it
about grammar or spelling as we do have a number of members whose
native language is not English and we appreciate their attempts to
communicate with us as best they can. The purpose of this list is to
communicate with each other. Not including the entire message isn't a
problem when you are searching for a pbs message through Google as
the messages come in a format that includes a link for the previous
message, a link for the next message and a way to sort the archives
by date, thread, subject, author. So you can easily find out more
information if you need it.

To remind those of you who are long time subscribers here are the
guidelines that come with the welcome message:

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