[Milsurplus] A few words from your list manager.

[Ralph Hogan]

Greetings to all the milsurplus list members!  Its been some time since I
sent out a reminder email. I'm sure we have a lot of new members that
haven't seen this before. Welcome to all of the new subscribers. With
hundreds of subscribers, I'm sure there are a lot that lurk on the list. I
encourage everyone to post messages that pertain to our milsurplus list. The
only bad question is the one never asked. We have some super knowledgeable
collectors on the group, so someone probably knows the answer to your
question(s). If you are new to this form of collecting/hobby, please dont be
shy to chime in.

I wanted to say thanks for making the management of this list easy! Everyone
maintains a good attitude here and for the most part keeps on topic.
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I would ask all of you a few things to make my life a little easier.

Whenever mailman bounces a message, I get it. I list here a few of the more
common problems:

1) Non-member submissions are forbidden.

If you are not a member (reading the messages off the website) and respond
to the list, your message will not be
sent out.  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.

2) Users incoming quota is exceeded.

If your email acccount has a quota, please keep it purged. If  your account
continually bounces back due to the mailbox being full, the account will be
unsubscribed. If  this happens, just resubscribe once you've cleaned up your
mailbox.

3) HTML or other 'fancy' text fonts & attachments

This list is not setup to accept any HTML or other 'fancy text' or
attachments. mailmain will drop your message if it contains any. Please send
in plain ole text format and everything will go through.  Dont 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) Duplication of message content.

If you are replying to a message, please please snip out what your 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.

6) Electronic Bidding Sites

Please do not promote your own auctions ( ebay, etc.) on this remailer. This
is QTH.net rules. I have relaxed the strict rules of no
mention of ebay at all. If it is to the benefit of the group to ask about an
item you saw (like what is it?) then this will be permitted.

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That is about it for now. Again thanks for helping this list be a great
success. We have a very large and growing number of military radio
collectors & users on the list. The knowledge base is tremendous!

73's
Ralph W4XE Milsurplus List Manager
w4xe at qsl.net
www.qsl.net/w4xe