Using CCD-world

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2. If you reply to a CCD-world posting using the generic reply facility on your mail client, this will normally send the reply to the whole of CCD-world. If you wish to reply only to the person who posted the original message, you must be careful to set the appropriate address yourself.
3. All messages posted to CCD-world must be approved by the moderator. This is to prevent the unauthorised posting of messages to CCD-world by such parties as mass-mailing companies. Postings to CCD-world will be delayed by the time that it takes the moderator to react. This will depend on such factors as time zones, weekends, vacations and travel schedules. This inconvenience is the price we pay for a high signal-to-noise ratio in the group.
4. Points (2) and (3) occasionally mean that I am asked to approve messages which appear not to belong on CCD-world at large - that is, they appear to be direct replies to a specific person inadvertantly sent to CCD-world itself. Under these circumstances, I shall ask the poster to confirm the posting.