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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">SOME POINTS OF CLARIFICATION, SIZE OF POSTS and PACIFIC BASSET FEET:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">The Daily Drool Website (including Hounds Bay) is owned and operated by Nancy Gallagher. The Daily</FONT> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Drool Website is paid for by Nancy Gallagher, from her own pocket, the goodness of her heart and her love of hounds. Costs for operating an interactive website, domain fees, domain name etc. are relatively expensive and require MANY hours of time for dev</FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri">e</FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri">lopment and maintenance.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">The Daily Drool Digest (like the post you are reading now) WAS founded by Nancy Gallagher but is NOW owned and operated by Alex and Melissa Joleka. The Daily Drool Digest is paid for by Alex and Melissa, from their own pocket, the</FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri"> goodness of their hearts and their love of hounds. Costs for operating the Daily Drool Digest site, domain fees, management and maintenance are significant. The system automatically issues a Digest when a series of posts reach a specific number of byte</FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri">s</FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri">. If we exceed the monthly allotment of bytes, then the Daily Drool Digest list owners, Alex and Melissa Joleka, have to pay extra for that month. For this reason, the size limit for Daily Drools posts is 10,000 bytes. A basic, correctly submitted post</FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT> <FONT FACE="Calibri">is usually a minimum of 2500 bytes; a 10 - 15 line post will reach 10, 000 bytes. Normally, that is more than sufficient for most posts. The Moderators must approve each and every post before it is posted to the Daily Drool Digest. This approval proc</FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri">e</FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri">ss includes determining the size of the post, as well as content, tone, relevance to basset hounds and appropriateness. Moderators do not have the capability to “trim” your posts for you, so we sometimes have to ask you to “trim” and repost.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">You can help</FONT> <FONT FACE="Calibri">by:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> ONLY use the drool address (</SPAN><A HREF="http://lists.dailydrool.org/listinfo.cgi/dailydrool-dailydrool.org"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">dailydrool at dailydrool.org</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us">) without other addresses attached, such as copying to other people or groups</SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">DO NOT use colored stationary or colored text</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT> <FONT FACE="Calibri">DO NOT include emoticons or animated items in your post or signature</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT> <FONT FACE="Calibri">LIMIT the length of your posts </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT> <FONT FACE="Calibri">DO put in a descriptive subject line</FONT> <FONT FACE="Calibri">–</FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri"> it helps the readers</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT> <FONT FACE="Calibri">DO NOT include the post you are replying to</FONT> <FONT FACE="Calibri">–</FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri"> sim</FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri">ply use the same subject line</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT> <FONT FACE="Calibri">DO NOT hit “reply” when you are making a post (it copies the entire Digest you are reading!)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT> <FONT FACE="Calibri">LIMIT the inclusion of live links to websites, fundraising sites, etc. within your post </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT> <FONT FACE="Calibri">LIMIT your signature lines</FONT> <FONT FACE="Calibri">–</FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri"> including live</FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri"> links to websites, fundraising sites, etc.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">With the current fun everyone is having with the PACIFIC BASSET FEET (thanks Val for this fun idea!), we are experiencing an exceptionally high volume of posts. That is a good thing but it does come at a price a</FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri">nd the Daily Drool Digest does have some limitations (for instance, we are not able to post pictures, spreadsheets, attachments etc.) We, as moderators, certainly want everyone to continue having fun with the PACIFIC BASSET FEET and don</FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri">’</FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri">t want to be spoi</FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri">l</FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri">-sports. So, we are making the following suggestions to allow the fun to continue and at the same time, contain costs of maintaining the Daily Drool Digest.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Applicants to the Pacific Basset Feet could send applications directly to the Commander</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Commander</FONT> <FONT FACE="Calibri">of the Pacific Basset Feet could post bi-weekly additions to the PBF</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Photos of the PBF could be compiled by a PBF Liaison and link could be posted to the DD and updated bi-weekly</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Fundraising efforts of the PBF can be posted daily by the Commander or design</FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri">ee</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Funds generated by the PBF could be shared with a rescue and the Daily Drool maintenance fund on a monthly basis</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Members of the PBF may post reports of the activities of the PBF within the normal limits.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">YOU MAY NOW RETURN TO YOUR REGULAR PROGRAMMING!</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Thank you and Drool on!</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Sandi Wittenberg on behalf of the Moderators</FONT></SPAN></P>
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