Suggestions for Yahoo Group Rules?

Question

I am starting a support yahoo group for my husbands military squadron. I would like to include some ground rules to help keep it supportive and fun. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

we use these as a general bases

Yahoo! Groups Guidelines

http://groups.yahoo.com/local/guidelines...

Answer 2

why do you need rules for a support group?

Answer 3

yae let the quesioning gets the point

Answer 4

Here is the welcome message I send to new members we  now have more than 2,600 members and 16,000 posts.  Of course our group is 8 years old.

  Hola, welcome to the Yahoo Sosúa Group. In our files section is a folder “Sosúa Fan Club Gallery” containing member’s photos. Your photo is most welcome. Also in the files section are maps, locations and some suggestions for visitors to Sosúa; if you have your own suggestions please add them they are very welcome. If you are in business in Sosúa please let us know about it. Our group is non-commercial and although self-promotion is not permitted, news of special promotions or events are most welcome.If you know anyone who may be interested in Sosúa please invite him or her to join us. Our group is growing and the more the merrier. You can use the invite button on the left side of our page or just send them the URL. On our front page we usually post a photo taken by one of our members or something of interest.   Member’s photos are always welcome in our photos section. Your participation on our message board  is most welcome so please post whenever you can, whether you are a regular visitor, planning a visit or you live in Sosúa everyone has something to contribute.

On our links page are dozens of sites which may be of interest. If you know of others that should be there, please add them in the appropriate folder.  If you live in Sosúa please keep us  informed as to what is going on in Sosúa. Unfortunately, since our group has become quite large we have to moderate first posts to keep out spam.