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Last updated: 16 February 1999
This message answers the following questions:
What is the Royal Rangers Mailing List for?
How do I Subscribe to the Royal Rangers Mailing List?
How do I Unsubscribe from the Royal Rangers Mailing List?
Why did I Stop Getting RangerNet Mail?
How do I Send Messages to the Royal Rangers Mailing List?
Where is the RangerNet mailing list archive?
What are Some Good Web Sites for Royal Rangers?
What Netiquette applies to RangerNet?
Who Maintains this FAQ?
Please see http://RangerNet.org for related questions not
answered here.
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What is the Royal Rangers Mailing List for?
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The Royal Rangers mailing list is discussion of Royal Rangers,
Christian living, and reaching, teaching, and keeping boys and girls
for Jesus Christ. This list is open to all Royal Rangers, Royal Ranger
commanders, and people interested in Royal Rangers. All list members
are expected to live by the Royal Ranger Code and the Golden Rule on
this list.
There is a fairly high volume of traffic on this list, with messages
ranging from profound devotional and activity ideas to friendly banter
and jokes. It is kind of like an electronic camp fire in cyberspace
that we sit around. We share our common interests with greater
immediacy and less noise than is common on usenet. You may not want to
join this list if your mailbox is small or you don't have the ability
to automatically sort mail to different folders so that your other
mail isn't drowned in Royal Ranger list mail. There are a few people
on the list who connect with slow modem connections, so please refrain
from sending large binary files to the list. (Such files can be
posted on a web site and announced on the list, if they are of general
interest).
If the volume of traffic on this mailing list is too much for you, but
you are still interested in getting some of the best posts from this
list, you may be interested it subscribing to the Royal Ranger Gold
mailing list, instead. Send blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for
details about that mailing list.
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How do I Subscribe to the Royal Rangers Mailing List?
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Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line
subscribe rangernet
in the body of the message. The subject line is ignored. (Right
now, the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] is equivalent to
[EMAIL PROTECTED], but this may change in the future.)
If your email is replyable, you will get two responses back.
On will have the subject "Majordomo results" and should tell
you that your subscription requires confirmation. (It may also
tell you you that it was confused because you didn't spell
"subscribe rangernet" right. It is very picky.) The other
message is your confirmation message. It will ask you to send
a certain command back to a certain address if you really want
to subscribe. This unfortunate computer literacy test is asking
you to send the line that starts with "auth" and ends with your
email address back. Please send the exact line requested to the
exact address requested.
The confirmation step is designed to (1) avoid the hassles to
the list owner that happen when someone subscribes an incorrect
address because of misconfigured mail software, and (2) prevents
someone from using RangerNet as a mailbomb.
If your address is NOT replyable because you have entered the
wrong things for your "From" and "Reply-To" headers, you need to
fix that before you can subscribe to RangerNet. Please read the
instructions for your email package and/or ask for help from
someone who can look over your shoulder.
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How do I Unsubscribe from the Royal Rangers Mailing List?
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Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line
unsubscribe rangernet
in the subject line. To change mailing addresses, unsubscribe
from your old one and subscribe to the new one. Please do not
send unsubscribe requests to the whole list. If you are
unsubscribing from a different address because you no longer
have access to the old address, add your old address to the
unsubscribe line, like
unsubscribe rangernet [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Where you replace "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" with the email address you
want to remove from the list.) Please do not send unsubscribe
requests to the whole list. In the unlikely event that you have
difficulty unsubscribing, you may ask for help from
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Why did I Stop Getting RangerNet Mail?
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Some problem may have caused mail sent to your email box to
bounce. Bounce messages usually result in your name being
removed from the mailing list without warning. Possible causes
of this problem include overstuffed mail boxes, mail
misconfiguration, and transient errors on the route between you
and the remailer. Try resubscribing to the Royal Rangers
mailing list if this happens. It is especially important for you
to check your email often if you get your mail through Juno,
WebTV, or AOL.
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How do I Send Messages to the Royal Rangers Mailing List?
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Simply address your email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or
[EMAIL PROTECTED]) and it will be copied to everyone on
the mailing list world wide. It is a good idea to send a message
introducing yourself and what your position and interest in
Royal Rangers is shortly after you join the list. When replying
to rangernet mail, please check the addresses you are sending
to, especially if you are an AOL customer. Please do NOT send
any mail to the "owner-rangernet" address that you want to go to
the mailing list, because that is the address where all the
bounce messages go, and chances are your message will be deleted
before being read.
Also, please note that it is best not to advertise your
ignorance in front of hundreds of people by sending unsubscribe
requests to the entire mailing list. Those should go to
[EMAIL PROTECTED], instead.
Please note that you must be subscribed to RangerNet at the
address you are sending messages from for your message to go
through to RangerNet. If you aren't, your message may be
bounced, deleted without comment, or manually forwarded to the
mailing list after a long (up to 3 weeks) delay.
Because Majordomo is designed to filter out certain annoying
email, never start your subject line "help", "unsubscribe", or
"subscribe" to prevent your message from being deleted or
delayed.
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Where is the RangerNet mailing list archive?
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Old posts from RangerNet are stored at
http://mail-archive.com/[email protected] and
http://mail-archive.com/[email protected] (check both
of the above for a complete listing). A unified (but commercial)
archive is at http://escribe.com/teens/rangernet/
Please note that all posts to RangerNet are archived. If this
bothers you, then please don't post.
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What are Some Good Web Sites for Royal Rangers?
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Try feeding "Royal Rangers" into your favorite search engine.
There are more Royal Rangers sites that are worthwhile, but this
should get you started.
AG Royal Rangers official site
http://www.ag.org/rangers/
Assemblies of God
http://www.ag.org
Australian Royal Rangers
http://www.royalrangers.org.au/
International Pentecostal Holiness Church
http://www.iphc.org/
IPHC Royal Rangers
http://members.aol.com/phrangers/index.html
RangerNet and Cyber Pow-Wow site
http://rangernet.org/
Royal Rangers of the Southwest Pacific and Southeast Asia
http://usrwww.mpx.com.au/~thornempx/rr/
Royal Rangers Web Ring
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/5084/index.html
If you have a good Royal Rangers site, please add it to the
Royal Rangers Web Ring.
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What Netiquette applies to RangerNet?
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Make the Golden Rule your daily rule.
It is wise to "lurk" for a few days (reading messages without
posting anything) to get a feel for the kinds of things that are
discussed and some of the personalities on the list -- then jump
in and introduce yourself. We would like to know your name,
connection with Royal Rangers, location, etc.
Remember that you are communicating with people, not computers.
ALL CAPS IS SHOUTING.
Please keep the discussion on topic (Royal Rangers, FCF,
Christian living, devotions, and related material). Some
friendly banter is OK, and even adds a human element to the
discussion, but please don't post chain letters, "get rich
quick" schemes, commercial messages (except for Royal Rangers
and FCF material of general interest), or anything you wouldn't
want your pastor, your mother, and small children to read.
Please be kind to people with slow modem connections and small
mailboxes. Don't post large binary files, graphics, etc. It is
appropriate to post pointers to ftp or web sites to get such
things, where appropriate. Before posting anything to RangerNet,
ask yourself if it edifies, encourages, cheers up, or helps the
people who read it. Don't use the mailing list or news group as
a substitute for personal email.
Please make sure that the "subject" line of your post clearly
describes what is in the message. This helps others to find and
use materials such as devotions, resource ideas, etc., that have
been posted. No special code or syntax is required, but
something like "Subject: Devotion: the 1st commandment with a
promise" works well.
Be sure that what you send is sent in love with the intention of
building up others on the list. Be aware that postings to
RangerNet are archived and may be retrieved much later.
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Who Maintains this FAQ?
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This FAQ is maintained by Michael Paul Johnson (AKA Soaring
Golden Eagle), of Rocky Mountain Outpost 207 with help from
fellow Royal Rangers. Please send comments, suggestion, and
updates to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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