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Mercedes Benz M-Class Enthusiasts Mailing List Guidelines: * Purpose of the list The Mercedes-Benz M-Class Mailing List is for serious M-B M-Class owners or prospective owners to discuss M-Class related topics, including general information, technical information, do-it-yourself reports, news, and other topics related to the M-Class vehicles. * List formats There are two types of mailing services, a regular one and a digest format. The former will relay every message posted, whereas the later will only send out one message per day in a digest format. You will need to indicate which format you prefer. To change from one format to another, you will need to unsubscribe the current list and subscribe to the new list. * To Subscribe or Unsubscribe To subscribe to the list, visit http://lists.off-road.com/mailman/listinfo/m-class/ You will be notified when your subscription is approved because the list is a closed list. This usually takes a few days. We also provide an additional list that is for posting only. This allows subscribers who may have multiple email accounts and prefer to read email with one account and to post with another one. If you have such need, subscribe to one of the two lists first with the email account you will receive email, then contact the list administrator with information on your alternate addrss. * To Post To post a message to the list, send email to m-class@lists.off-road.com * Subject line Please use the subject line properly when posting with precise and relevant title. When you replying a message with different subject, change the subject line to reflect the new subject in order to avoid confusion. Digest subscribers need to pay special attention to the subject line when replying as the original subject line is usually "M-B M-Class Digest: Vol 01/Issue 23". * Quoting When replying a message, many email programs automatically include a copy of the original message. Please edit the included message to include only the related section, especially when replying to a digest. It's really a waste when someone replies with a line like "I agree!" while including the whole digest that could be several pages long. * Replying to individual poster In some cases a reply to an individual is preferred instead of to the whole list. For example, when someone posts a message regarding a for-sale item, a reply to the for-sale owner is preferred instead of telling everyone on the list you're interested in the item. * Attachment Email attachments such as graphic files, sound files, or other multimedia information are generally discouraged due to bandwidth resource concern. World Wide Web is better suited for sharing such information. You are welcome to publish an URL such as http://myweb.com/mclass/myfavorpic.jpg in posting. There is also a Member's Showcase for hosting list members' favor pictures. If your email program is configured to send out rich text such as HTML or attach file such as WINMAIL.DAT automatically, your posting will be rejected by the list server. To find out how to configure your email properly, please see http://www.off-road.com/mbenz/rich-text.html for details. * Use of HTML While more and more email programs interpret some HTML commands, posting a complete HTML document to the list is not encouraged. Some limited use of HTML commands such as font related is allowed. * FAQ If you're a new member and have a question, please read the Frequent Asked Question file. Your questions could very well be already answered in the FAQ. The FAQ is available in the M-Class Mailing List web site as http://www.off-road.com/mbenz/faq.html. * Archive Past email messages will be archived, see the archive section at http://moab.off-road.com/pipermail/m-class/. * Unrelated topics (jokes, politics, etc ) In order to keep the list interesting, you are asked to post only M-Class related topics. While there are topics that you and some of your fellow list members may want to share, such as jokes, political comments, or even discussion of a specific M-B vehicle alone such as an E300D, they are not related to the list and thus discouraged. There are many lists for such topics. For other Mercedes-Benz related lists, see the M-B Related Links at http://www.off-road.com/mbenz/links.html for information. * For Sales Message Posting message with for sales item related to M-Class is allowed. Please provide sufficient information so others can reply directly. Inquiry to the for sale item should be posted directly to the owner instead of the list. * Flames, chain letter, personal attack Be polite to your fellow list members. Flames, rants, and obscenities are strictly forbidden. We have one-strike-you're-out policy. Chain letter such as the one asking you to resend to many others who you may or may not know for whatever purpose (getting rich, dying kid, etc), is also not allowed. Personal attack such as name calling is strictly prohibited and the list administrators reserve the right of removing violators. * Spam Email spam is the evil of private mailing list. While we stride very hard to protect the list and the privacy of the list members, spam could happen from time to time. Please refrain from commenting or denouncing the spam in the list that will create further frustration. Report the problem to the list administrators directly via sending email to mclass@off-road.com if the problem persists more than two days. It is highly recommended you do not response to the offender yourself by replying since this will expose your email address to the spammer and may result with more spam message going to your email address. With the proliferation of free email accounts available in the Internet, many of them are lack of anti-spam policy and anyone can sign up without verifiable credential. We reserve the right of blocking and not accepting subscribers from certain email accounts. * Our Sponsor This list and the associated web page is made possible by the kind folks at Off-Road.COM. Please visit web pages of their paying customers. Anyone who is interested in advertising in Off-Road.com should contact sales@off-road.com . This list is maintained by Ken Yee (mclass@off-road.com). To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the M-class Archives.
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