[FARC] Hints on Posting to the Reflector

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In a message  dated 2/14/2008 2:17:33 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
windbrkr at erols.com  writes:
Here are a couple of tips to successful posting to the FARC  reflector:

- You *must* post from the same email address that you used to  subscribe 
to the list.  If you change your email and can't use the old  one at all, 
you can go in and re-subscribe with the new one, then notify one  of the 
list administrators (me and/or Eric N8AAY) to delete your  subscription 
under the old email address.

- Your postings should be  in *plain text*. Most email programs allow 
you to specify the formatting for  your outgoing emails, and some allow 
you to do so individually by  addressee.  You can have some simple html 
tags (the hidden info that is  used to format web pages) in your emails 
to the reflector, but if there are  too many or the wrong kind, your 
emails will be rejected by the management  software.  Best to just use 
"plain text".

- The management  software will reject emails that have the FARC 
reflector address  (farc at mailman.qth.net) as a "blind" recipient among 
other "blind"  recipients.  "Blind" addressing (Bcc:) is used to hide 
multiple  addressees from one another, often as a courtesy so a huge list 
of  addressees doesn't clutter up the beginning of an email, but it's 
also  much-used by spammers, so Bcc: emails are simply filtered out by 
the  reflector software.

- Try not to use "bad" language.  I can't tell  you exactly what the 
reflector management software considers "bad", but if  you were to use 
one or more of the words that get folks like Howard Stern or  the 
Greaseman (remember them?) thrown off the air, your posting to the list  
will probably bounce.  We all know you wouldn't do that, but more  benign 
words, are also on the reflector Nanny list, if they tend to appear  in 
spam email.  Last year I had a posting about a Frederick County  
hazardous waste drop-off day bounce two or three times until it dawned  
on me that the list of things accepted at the event included  
"p-h-a-r-m-a-c-e-u-t-i-c-a-l-s".  Once I deleted that awful word from  
the list, the posting went through, no problem.

There are no doubt  other gotchas that will keep folks from getting a 
posting up to the list,  but these four seem to crop up most often.  If 
you know of any others,  or have other suggestions, please post them to 
the list!

The  reflector software is a little bit primitive by today's standards, 
but it  definitely gets the job done effectively - it gets the notices, 
questions,  answers, etc. out to a wide audience quickly and simply by 
email, rather  than requiring web access.

73, Bob  K9CMR
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