Ahoy, all hands! Trawler World List has been in existence one year and four months today (10/22/98) and Majordomo indicates we have 470 active subscribers in 18 countries: Australia, Bermuda, China, Columbia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Spain, United Arab Emirates and Venezuela in addition to the U.S. and Canada. The list continues to grow at the rate of .96 subscribers per day. This monthly message on the anniversary date updates our numbers and covers what I call housekeeping matters. As always, please feel free to comment via a post to the list or in private email to me. Trawler World Productions sponsors the list as a public service, exclusively for the non-business use of private individuals. Commercial messages, for-sale offerings and for-charter postings are prohibited on the list, by an overwhelming vote of susbcribers several months ago. Trawler World Online will soon be expanded to include such services. Advertising or any form of commercial solicitation is prohibited. People who work in boating are welcome to participate on the list as individuals, sharing their expertise when appropriate. They must refrain from openly promoting or inadvertently shilling for their products and services in posts to the list. When in doubt, switch to private email. Blatant billboarding only hurts your own cause on a list devoted to the non-business use of private individuals. Snip those quotes! ---------------------------------- Please, please, please do not automatically quote the entire previous message when adding comments in a thread. Indeed, toggle off the option on your email application that does so. Quote only what is necessary for understanding or continuity. Often, no quoting at all is needed. Rarely is there a need to quote the entire previous message. If you do quote, please ensure the quote is _not_ longer than the new message you are adding in the thread. Unnecessary quoting is a waste of time and money. Trawler World News ---------------------------------- Subscribers to the list and related digest automatically receive Trawler World News, the newsletter I aim to publish at least once per month. Should you receive two copies, please simply trash one. We try to screen for dupes, but some do sneak through. Virus warnings ---------------------------------- As there are so many other sources of information about viruses, whether they be hoaxes or not, and as virus warnings per se are not related to the subject matter of this list, let us not post or debate the matter on Trawler World List, please. What if TWList email stops? ---------------------------------- Bounced mail is list email that cannot be delivered to a listee. That mail is returned to the listmaster with a notice of undeliverability. As you can imagine, if mail bounces from only a few listees each day, I can suddenly be overhwelmed with 50 or more returning messages, on top of my regular email and posts from the list. A listmaster has no option but to delete the problem address. Many lists do so automatically upon the first bounce. At TWList, where I am on the verge of resorting to an automatic delete command, I let the bounces continue a short while, in case the problem clears itself. But then, I too have no choice but to delete the problem address. Should your TWList email stop arriving, please check that your mailbox is not full and that you have received non-list email. The latter will be an indication that your server is working okay. If those two steps check out, please send the message ubscribe trawler-world-list or ubscribe trawler-world-list-digest to <majordomo@samurai.com> to check your status. The message you receive in return will indicate what's what. 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Digest means you receive posts to the list in one batch only once per day, generally soon after midnight. Subscribers who wish to change to the digest format need to send email to <majordomo@samurai.com> and write unsubscribe trawler-world-list subscribe trawler-world-list-digest in the body of the message. Digest format will not appeal to you if you are active in posting to the list or if you enjoy receiving email at several times a day. For lurkers, and people who already receive a lot of email, the digest format is ideal. Archives ---------------------------------- The list archives can be found at at <http://www.samurai.com/lists>. A link also appears at <http://www.trawlerworld.com/list.html>. Signature info ---------------------------------- It is a good idea to sign off your posts to the list with a brief signature block, to refresh memories since introductions were made, and because we have new subscribers coming aboard on an average of 1+ per day. Signature info may not be needed in every post, if you are fairly active, but let us not be bashful when it will make messages more informative. Traffic on the list ---------------------------------- Now that our numbers are increasing, it is time to take a look out how we can all work together to keep the list enjoyable and worthwhile. I'd like to share with you two private emails I have received: >>>Trawler List Suggestion: try not to let the chit-chat build up too much. >>>If the traffic stays as heavy as it is now, or increases, many people >>>(including me) will probably sign off. A message or two a day is fun, >>>but 10, 20 or more gets old fast, especially if they mainly consist of >>>earlier messages with a line or two of comment added at the end. If >>>this is going to be a high-volume list, you'll need to have a digest >>>form as well.<<< >>>I enjoy many of the postings very much but my email box, which already >>>receives business related mail, much junk mail (especially porno >>>opportunities, why me?) is now further clogged with personal responses >>>from one list member to another. List protocol on most lists is that personal responses are emailed directly to an individual. Only responses or questions of general interest are sent to the entire group. Unfortunately, this is not the case with the trawler list. I know that some people just like to get mail, but left unchecked, the list will collapse. The weight of personal messages will cause many to simple decide to leave. The longer this goes on, the worse it will get. I hope you will notify the list members and try to see that the rules of email courtesy and common sense get followed.<<< The last thing I want to do is crimp anyone's ability to communicate via the list, but please do give consideration to the ideas expressed in the two quotes above. To unsubscribe or subscribe --------------------------- Send a message to <majordomo@samurai.com> with one of the following commands in the body of your email message: unsubscribe trawler-world-list or subscribe trawler-world-list Within a day or so, you should get a pair of automated message asking you to confirm your subscription request. If you use a signature block in your email, please disable it for the confirmation message so as not to confuse majordomo and cause unnecessary error messages. It does not matter what, if anything, you write in the subject line. The list management software automatically captures your email address and that's all there is to it. 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NB -------------- Finally, please note that I will never give away or sell the Trawler World subscriber list for any reason. --Georgs Georgs Kolesnikovs Listmeister at Trawler World Online <http://www.trawlerworld.com> To post a message to the list, address it to <trawler-world-list@samurai.com> To send private email, select the email address of your intended recipient List archives are located at <http://www.samurai.com/lists/>