[Milsurplus] Milsurplus list guidelines

[Ralph Hogan]

Greetings to all the MILSURPLUS list members!

 

A quick few words from your list manager.

 

I wanted to say thanks for making the management of this list easy! Everyone
maintains a great attitude here. 

 

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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 account has a quota, please keep it purged. If  your account
continually bounces back due to the mailbox being full, the account will be
unsubscribed automatically. If  this happens, just re-subscribe 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. mailman will drop your message if it contains any. Please send
in plain ole text format and everything will go through.  Don't forget that
fancy signatures also contain HTML.  This is probably the number one reason
people have trouble posting messages to the list.

 

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 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 a QTH.net rule we have to live with. 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.

 

7) Flame wars will not be permitted. All involved parties will be
unsubscribed or put on moderated status.

Fortunately we don't have to contend with this very often.

 

8) Please keep on the topic of this remailer.  Off topic subjects tend to
upset a lot of subscribers. We don't want to run anyone off due to excessive
discussions that are not the focus of this list.

 

9) Spam filters. As the popularity of the web has grown so has the threat of
spam and viruses. The QTH.net guys have to tighten the noose a little more
every year it seems to parse messages before they are sent through the
system. Unfortunately in some instances harmless messages are rejected for
various reasons. I try to work with anyone having problems of this nature.
Just shoot me an email and we'll work through it.

 

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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 around the world on the list. The knowledge base is
tremendous! Thanks to all who contribute.

 

73 Ralph W4XE/AAT4UU Milsurplus List Manager

w4xe at qsl.net

www.qsl.net/w4xe

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