Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 18:07:44 -0500
Reply-To: "Carrington, Tom" <tcarrington@RELITECH.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: "Carrington, Tom" <tcarrington@RELITECH.COM>
Subject: Please Read, then I will shut up.
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Just as a tickler, I thought I should resend the Vanagon List welcome
message.
As many of you know, Coyote and I are the list administrators. I also am
responsible for the care and feeding of Gerry, our list server. He lives in
my home office and generally helps keep that room warm. ;) My personal
management "style" (If it could be called that) is low key. If I see
something out of line, I'll usually respond personally, and not to the list.
Below is an abridged version of the welcome message.
***Begin welcome message*********************
One of the great things about the Vanagon mailing list is the large
quantity of information exchanged by the members. In order to ensure the
availability of this information, submitters to the vanagon mailing list
agree to grant the list managers the right to printed and electronic
distribution of submitted articles into compilations. List managers and
their agents also have the right to make edits which, in their sole
opinion, improve the clarity of the submission. Submitters warrant that,
as far as they know, they have the right to submit the material in
question for publication. All articles are considered copyrighted by
their authors.
Due to the volume on the Vanagon list and the multigenerational nature of
the discussions, it would be a great help if you would make the subject
of your message explicit to what model(s) and year(s) or era of van that
the message pertains to. For example:
"Eurovan rear hatch won't latch" "91 Camper stove problem"
"87 Syncro Clutch Problems" "83-H20 engine temperature"
Often messages refer to trips, tools or other general topics. These types
of messages are of course meant for the whole list and a subject without
a particular van type is expected.
Fridays are a day when people do fun things on the list. These things may
actually not be VW related, but we strongly encourage it. To indicate
that a posting is in fun and may not be of technical value, you should
preface or suffix your subject with /f [f] or (F). Anyone without a sense
of humor should delete these messages without reading them.
The vanagon mailing list has been around for a while and its citizens are
fairly net.savvy. Bear that in mind before you forward something to the
list. In particular, please avoid the following:
o Messages containing cookie recipes.
o Craig Shergold or any kid dying of cancer who wants to live
forever in e-mail
o Forwarded messages with LOTS OF CAPITALS AND EXCLAMATION
POINTS!!!!!
o Any virus warning which says you can get a virus just by reading
an e-mail message, especially if the virus-carrying message always
has the same subject.
o Any virus warning already listed as a hoax at any of the following
sites:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html
http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html
http://www.kumite.com/myths/
o The Internet AIDS Infection Experiment or any Internet Experiment
o Why Computers Are Like Men/Women
o Petitions
o Good-luck charms
o Any Chain Letter, especially if it's already listed at:
http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACChainLetters.html
o Dire warnings or actions alerts like Save Sesame Street!, Kidney
Thieves, Airport laptop thieves, 806 pager scams, FCC Internet Tax,
Lexis-Nexis P-Trax database, rec.music.white-power, etc. Basically,
anything telling the whole world to send e-mail somewhere or take
some action, but doesn't tell you what day (and year) to stop.
Stop forwarding hysteria!
o Content-free ping tests
o Messages with more forwards than actual text
o Posting private email to the whole list without permission
o A reply to a previous Vanagon list posting, quoting all six
hundred lines, when all you wanted to do was respond to the last
three
Sending this sort of thing to the Vanagon list will make you look like a
novice, and will bring the Coyote's sarcasm crashing down upon your head.
Please refrain from profanity or pushing other's buttons on the list. We
try very hard to get along. Censorship will be enacted for those unable
to control themselves. Thanks for your cooperation.
Enjoy the list!
TomC & Coyote
(the moderators)
*****End welcome message*************
TomC
tcarrington@relitech.com
http://volksweb.relitech.com
85 Vanagon Crew Cab
82 Westy diesel=>gas conversion
65 Notchback