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***A Mail List for Live Aboards and Wannabes***
This list was started in March 1993 by Ray Wagner of the University
of Virginia, but he soon found it needed a more permanent home. I offered
to keep it on my Sun 386i at the David Dunlap Observatory, just before I
began to live aboard myself. It now has about 530 names plus 110 on the
digest version. Its purpose is to be a forum for communication among people
living aboard and those who are thinking about it or are interested. In the
past we have discussed dealing with condensation, local politics, finance,
insurance and canal boats, among many others. "Live-aboards" include those
living on boats but working at a steady job in one place, as well as those
planning, or already doing, extended cruising.
The list is an automated mail-exploder, so any mail sent to
"live-aboard@crux.astro.utoronto.ca" will go to everybody on the list.
* Information about how to get on the list is obtained by sending a one-word
message to "live-aboard-request@crux.astro.utoronto.ca". with the command
"info" in the TEXT of the message. This will test your address, too.
* Messages to a live human being (i.e. me) can be directed to
"live-aboard-owner@crux.astro.utoronto.ca".
* To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to
"majordomo@crux.astro.utoronto.ca". The subject line is irrelevant, but
the text should contain:
subscribe live-aboard
to subscribe, or
unsubscribe live-aboard
to get off the list. "info live-aboard" sends this description.
The mailserver software uses your mail header to get your address.
* Previous contributions are archived (with e-mail addresses stripped out) at:
http://www.irbs.com/lists/live-aboard/
I am very grateful to IRBS for hosting this site in searchable form.
* A digest form of the list is available. Digests are sent out when the
accumulated messages exceeed 60KBytes, or 7 days have gone by). To
receive the digest version of the list, subscribe as above, but now say
instead:
subscribe live-aboard-digest
To unsubscribe from the digest list, use:
unsubscribe live-aboard-digest
* Messages which are cross-posted to other lists, and posters known to be
advertising commercially, will be stopped and sent to me for review.
Addresses which go bad and produce lots of bounces will be unsubscribed
fairly quickly; if you stop getting postings, you may need to re-subscribe
(don't worry, you can't be subscribed twice at the same address).
* Please do not post long messages (more than a very few KBytes), and
certainly not pictures and other binary attachments. Give a URL instead.
Keep quotes from previous postings to a minimum.
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***PLEASE NOTE ***
Standard mail-group etiquette is to e-mail responses to the sender and
not to the list, with the original sender mailing a SUMMARY to the group
once replies cease and are evaluated. Please use direct e-mail as much as
possible, sending only the SUMMARY to the whole list, because most people
have a limited tolerance for many unsolicited bits of e-mail.
With some 530 names on the list, this discipline is very necessary.
The Usenet newsgroups have become too big to read; let's keep this mail list
focused and useful! In particular, "flames" and repetitive chit-chat are not
warmly greeted; such outbursts or lengthy debates are followed by a bunch of
unsubscribe requests ... For a good summary of Netiquette on lists, see:
http://wise.fau.edu/netiquette/net/dis.html
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NB: Persons sending "flames" or other abusive expressions will be removed
from the list and blocked. Because this is an INTERNATIONAL list, we cannot
discuss foreign policy, weapons or disputed actions of the armed forces and
law enforcement agencies of any nation. Such discussions must be taken to
more appropriate fora (pirates are OK though, since we can all agree on
them!). This list is meant to provide information needed by people living in
boats, not to be a vehicle for political and ideological debates about
issues or people having no connection to living aboard.
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*********** It is best to not respond to inflammatory postings. *************
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DISCLAIMER
You use the list at your own risk. While I do my best to protect the list
from spam, and protect it from being stolen by spammers, I cannot assume the
responsibility of protecting you from viruses. E-mail viruses propagate
because of the inherently insecure architecture of the dominant personal
computer environment. I cannot waste my time because of the negligence of
some giant corporation. Even if you use the dominant environment, you can
take your own simple measures to protect yourself from e-mailed viruses.
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5 June 2003 - Stefan Mochnacki
(8 years aboard, now stranded on the hard)
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