[Milsurplus] It is time once again for a few words from your list administrator

[Ralph Hogan]

Greetings to all the milsurplus list members!

A short message from your list manager.  Occasionally I post the following
for new members and to refresh the brain cells of our long time members.

First, I wanted to say thanks for making the management of this list easy!
It is the users that make this list a huge success. Everyone here maintains
a great attitude and for the most part keeps on topic.
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Here a some of the more common problems that you can help me with:

1) Milsurplus messages sent to you are bouncing:
Whenever the mailman program gets a bounced message reply from your
provider, it keeps track of how many and how long this has occurred. If it
cannot get messages to you it will eventually remove your membership
automatically.  I recently increased this from 5 days to 10 days. However,
people are still being removed. If this happens to you, you may always
rejoin once the email delivery problem is resolved.
** Users that have email disk space limits. Please keep your inbox cleaned
out, then you won't bounce so often **

2) Non-member submissions are forbidden:         *** This occurs at an
alarming rate  ***
If you are not a member (reading the messages off the website) and respond
to the list, your message will not be sent out and will be held for later
approval or rejection. Also, in some cases, users subscribe with one account
that auto-forwards to their home account. When you respond, it must be from
the subscribed account name.

3) HTML or other 'fancy' text fonts & attachments
This list does not allow any HTML or other fancy text or attachments.
Messages containing HTML or MIME formats will be deleted automatically.
Please send in plain ole text format and everything will go through. Don�t
forget that fancy signatures also contain HTML.

4) User unknown or invalid account
We have members who subscribe and then disappear. If you subscribe, please
take the time to unsubscribe before you vanish or change email addresses.
Invalid users are immediately purged from the membership ranks.

5) Taboo words.
The mailman parses your subject and message content for words that are not
allowed. Besides profanity, some of the words it looks for are
s-u-b-s-c-r-i-b-e and h-e-l-p. If it finds these, the message is recognized
as a command request and goes to me instead of the remailer. Remember this
if you type a subject line or message asking for h-e-l-p.....

6) Duplication of message content.
If you are replying to a message, please please snip out what you are
responding to and DELETE the rest of the message. This is common courtesy.
There are hundreds of users on this list. Every unnecessary single word or
letter you keep in the message is multiplied by hundreds that the qth.net
center has to send out over the net. We all got the first message; there is
no need for you to resend the entire context again.

7) Electronic Bidding Sites
This list (and 99% of QTH.NET) does not support making references to the
latest gizmo for only 25 cents bid you've seen on one of 'those' sites.
There is a single specific remailer on QTH.NET that supports this. This is a
QTH.NET rule, not mine.

8) Changing your subscription options and unsubscribing from this list:

The web page for users of this mailing list is
http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/milsurplus

To change your subscription (set options like digest and delivery modes, get
a reminder of your password, or unsubscribe from Milsurplus), enter your
subscription email address on the above page.

I get a lot of emails from users asking to unsubscribe. Please first try to
do it yourself from the website access. If you have troubles, then email me.
Also, each month you are emailed a reminder of what your password is to
access the web page. Please keep a copy of that email handy.

If you change your email address, there is no way for you to go up on
mailman and �change� your email address to a new one. I cannot do this
remotely either. The easy way to do this is to just unsubscribe yourself
from the old address and then resubscribe as a new user under the new email
address.

9) Flaming
This list does not tolerate flaming of other individuals. Violators will be
warned and/or removed from the list. 99.9% of the time, we have a nice
friendly list here. Once in a long while we have a problem. Please keep it
civil and everyone will be happy.

10) Keeping on topic
Occasionally someone will stray from the focus area of this list, which is:
�Military Surplus Radios�. Postings from subscribers are automatically sent
to the list. No one wants to have a moderated list. So please try to stay on
topic. If it gets out of hand, a growing number of users get upset and then
I have to take action. If you are in doubt about a topic, you are welcome to
privately email me first to see if it is appropriate.

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That is about it for now. Again thanks for helping this list be a great
success. We have a large and growing number of military radio collectors &
users on the list. The knowledge base is tremendous!
73's
Ralph W4XE / AAT4UU Milsurplus List Manager
w4xe@qsl.net
www.qsl.net/w4xe