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Gulf War Veterans Mailing List Introduction Message!
Revised: 03 July 2000
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We hope the information that you find here will be helpful for
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officials, active duty personnel and others who are concerned
about the illnesses affecting thousands of Gulf War veterans.
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so the participants tend to know each other better, and they
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as long as you follow a few simple points of mailing list
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* We welcome contributions to the list. Information sent to the
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Please don't hesitate to send in any news articles, journals,
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post general chatter or philosophical type messages to GWVM.
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* Serve as an example: We get new people to the list all the
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* Sig Files: They can be very creative and beautiful, but
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* Flaming: A term used to denote people who verbally abuse,
berate, swear or otherwise try to embarrass, and put down
another person. Flames often stem from disagreement on a
given subject or a misunderstanding. List members as well
as the moderator heavily frown upon this practice.
* Prolonged Off-Topic Threads: Topics which have nothing to
do with Gulf War Illnesses. Occasionally, Off-Topic posts
will come up. Topics brought to the list _should_ reflect
some aspect of GWI. There are mailing lists for just about
any topic, but ours is for Gulf War Illnesses.
* Gripes: If someone has a problem or a grievance with
another list member, _Please_ take this to private mail!
* Attachments: In the past, we have had many problems with
people sending attachments to the list, i.e. HTML, fonts
files, programs, pictures and other things from processed
formats, etc. _PLEASE_ Do Not send anything that isn't
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e-mail providers as well as mail programs which cannot
properly decode these things and may either reject them,
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* Other reasons for removal are due to repeated inappropriate
posts. In such cases, you will receive a warning first.
Continuing disregard of list policy will result in removal
from the list. Such action is at the discretion of the Moderators
or at the prompting of numerous other list members.
* The members of this list come from a wide range of backgrounds,
including, but not limited to, activists, college professors
and VA officials. Several of our members are overseas. Assume
that any information you send to the list is public.
* Occasionally the list reproduces news articles or other
copyrighted information. We believe that falls within the fair
use category under copyright law. However, what you do with the
information is your own business.
That being said, here's all the technical jargon, for those
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