Reply to: draft intro info for chapman-era
Howdy, Mark.
Thanks for your amazingly fast response, getting chapman-era set up. I can't
imagine how you can manage so many lists... and still turn around new
requests like this one so quickly. Uncanny. If you ever need a job as a
sysadmin, I have no doubt that TRW would hire you in a flash. :-)
Anyway, to try to reduce your work setting up chapman-era to the absolute
*minimum* possible, I've thrown together an intro information message. Use
this intro message intact if it makes sense, or edit it to your heart's content.
__________________________________________________________________
This is the introductory information for the Chapman Era mailing list.
chapman-era is a mailing list for early Lotus enthusiasts, or actually for fans
of any sports or racing cars, similar in spirit to the Lotus cars of the
Chapman
era.
Enthusiasm for light, agile, rwd cars designed for performance is a
requirement. Appreciation for bang-for-the-buck engineering is a common
denominator. Lotus ownership is optional.
chapman-era is a Majordomo based mailing list, administered as part of the
autox.team.net hierarchy.
For help from Majordomo on autox.team.net, send the following in the body
(not the subject line) of an email message to "majordomo@autox.team.net":
help
Send your mail for the entire chapman-era list to
chapman-era@autox.team.net
To subscribe to chapman-era, send the following in the body (not the subject
line) of an email message to "majordomo@autox.team.net":
subscribe chapman-era
This will subscribe the account from which you sent the message. If you wish
to subscribe using some other address, you'll have to send a command of the
following form instead:
subscribe chapman-era other-address@your_site.your_net
To unsubscribe from chapman-era, send the following in the body (not the
subject line) of an email message to "majordomo@autox.team.net":
unsubscribe chapman-era
This will unsubscribe the account from which you sent the message. If you
are subscribed with some other address, you'll have to send a command of
the following form instead:
unsubscribe chapman-era other-address@your_site.your_net
When you send some other request which majordomo doesn't understand to
the majordomo@autox.team.net address, it may take days, maybe even a
week before a real human gets around to reading it and actually acting upon
it. Be patient. Someone will respond to you eventually.
Some things to note:
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Like the other lists served from autox.team.net, this one exists through the
volunteer efforts of the list manager, Mark J. Bradakis, mjb@autox.team.net.
The list manager retains the right to make any and all changes to list content,
membership and policies, including dissolving the list, at any time as he sees
fit.
The postings to this list are intended only for those on this list. Any
reproduction by any means without the express consent of the author is not
only rude and stupid, but prohibited.
Mail for the list gets sent to many people, traveling through many computers.
This may take days to actually occur, because some sites still use once a day
polling to transmit mail.
Given the current state of technology it is quite possible that one of those
links will exhibit some sort of problem. When you post a message, you may
get back error messages. This DOES NOT mean you need to resend it. What
it does mean is that everybody got it except for maybe one or two folks. Don't
repost things unless you are absolutely sure it did not reach anyone on the
list.
Remember that not everyone has the latest and greatest technology at their
fingertips. Keep your text limited to lines less than 80 characters long. Use
simple ASCII text.
Try to keep the size of your submissions under control. Avoid long
signatures at the end of your mail. And if you are replying to a message, use
discretion in how much of the original message you quote. Forwarding a
complete message only to add a single sentence or two of your own doesn't
make sense. Folks will delete the message they think they've already seen,
long before they get to your comments. Read over your text at least once
before you send your message, to catch obvious editor errors, spelling
errors and such.
Be nice. Give people the benefit of the doubt. While constructive criticism
is
always welcome, please don't waste our time with inflammatory or
null-content postings.
When legitimate issues arise, attack the issue, not the person. Debates
sometimes can be worthwhile, as long as they don't get out of control. When
a debate gets too long, be smart.... stop. You don't have to win a debate to
prove anything.
Public flames of other members are especially frowned upon. If you have a
problem with something or someone, it is recommended that you discuss it
privately.
mjb.
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erik.berg@trw.com
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