WELCOME. From the List Owner, T. Mark Graham. This welcome letter is sent on subscription. Updated 06-23-2011. GENERAL. Thank you for subscribing to the Gunsmithing mailing list. The target audience includes both the professional and home-hobby gunsmith. Technical questions, tips, kinks, and experiences are welcome, as are anecdotal stories and jokes relating to the trade. This is a family-friendly list, so I thank you in advance for using your good-taste and judgment to maintain a professional format. ON TOPIC. This is a Gunsmithing mailing list and I strictly enforce the on-topic nature. It is not a virus alert, joke, RKBA, political action, or a commercial sales list. While these topics are of great interest to some, they are off-topic for this list. I understand that the normal course of discussion brings in tangent topics. This is normal and acceptable. I am the sole judge of when a topic has drifted too far. Use your best judgment and don't take my decisions personally. You can continue your discussions off list. RESPONDING. Please delete any extraneous parts of a message to which you are responding. This is particularly important for those receiving posts in digest format. ATTACHMENTS. To limit viruses, I have set this list to automatically strip all attachments from messages. You may post an image or file to the list server, and then you will be prompted on whether you wish to notify the list of the upload. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gunsmithing/files/ PRIVACY. Do not include this Gunsmithing List in any mass mailings. Do not cross-post to other lists. Neither I, nor anyone else, may use membership contact information for any purpose other than discussing gunsmithing. Yahoo has their own privacy policy over which I have no control. MODERATION. I am the only one who will make any administrative posts. We do not need 50 people calling attention to something of which I am already aware. If you believe something needs my attention, send me a private message: gunsmithing-owner@yahoogroups.com . VIRUS & SPAM. A member might have their e-mail address hijacked for spam purposes. Recognizing it is not necessarily their fault, I will unsubsribe any addresses sending spam. Simply fix the problem and resubscribe. SALES. Limited, gunsmith-related "Want to Buy" and "Want to Sell" messages are welcome. Please do not abuse this privilege. This is not the venue for listing every gun in your shop, or repeated ads for regular inventory items. SIGNATURE LINES. For networking purposes, you are welcome to a signature line that links to your website or describes your area of specialty. Do not use a signature line for political action, or any other topic that would be otherwise prohibited. COPYRIGHTS. You do not retain any intellectual property rights to anything posted to the list. If you post it here, it is in the public domain. Limited, credited citations of sections from copyrighted work are allowed under the "fair use" doctrine. An explanation of fair use can be found on the US Copyright Office website: http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html One day I might consolidate some of the better submissions into some kind of collection, similar to Brownell's "Gunsmith Kinks". UNDELIVERABLE ADDRESS. You will be automatically unsubscribed from the list if your mail is returned "refused" or "no such address". Don't take it personally, just fix whatever the glitch is and resubscribe. You will be automatically unsubscribed from the list after 20 unsuccessful delivery attempts (box full, server error, etc.). Don't take it personally, just fix whatever is wrong and re-subscribe. Every message comes with a Yahoo tag for un-subscribing. Don't ask me to unsubscribe you. Just click on the link. Post message: gunsmithing@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: gunsmithing-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: gunsmithing-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com List Owner: gunsmithing-owner@yahoogroups.com Upload File. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gunsmithing/files/