Hi, Or. On ships they keep small boats for use in emergencies, called "life boats" or, on smaller boats and airplanes, "life rafts" which are often inflatable.
When the main SURVPC list started having trouble staying connected to the internet (you will recall what Travis said when he finally got it back up), it was out for weeks. I wasn't able to contact Eko or Travis, and I was afraid the list might disappear, so I created a "liferaft" to keep the list alive while the fate of the "mother ship" (the main list) was unknown. Since I am the tech person for my wife's web site domain (tmonroe.com), I established a list there and called it [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]. I then rounded up all the e-mail addresses I could find from the messages I had saved, and sent each of them (including you) an invitation to join the list. This is an EZ-MLM list, therefore commands are sent in the address instead of the message body. For example, if you wanted to join, you would send a message (empty is ok) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and then respond to the confirmation message you get. I have often wondered about the lack on response from many SurvPC list members to that invitation. Evidently several members didn't get my original broadcast. Now that the emergency is long past, the tmonroe.com (LifeRaft) version of the list continues to serve those who enrolled. We still participate in both lists, but the topics that go on [EMAIL PROTECTED] tend to be more "interest" and "information" oriented. Occasionally the discussions there get a little heated, but nobody gets hurt -- well, maybe a little pride now and then. The only thing that [EMAIL PROTECTED] does NOT have yet is digest mode. I keep running into life's little distractions. It does have archives, though, and those can be accessed as an ad-hoc digest. Of course I welcome anyone who wishes to subscribe. I don't have a bunch of rules, although I discourage attachments (I've established a public FTP site for that), and the list software pretty much eliminates HTML in the e-mail. There are no long headers or footers and no embedded advertizing. Just a simple, no frills, almost fully automated list. We would welcome your participation. You are one of the charter members of the original SurvPC list, and we don't see enough of you. (We don't see Pippi much either, but I believe that's more because she's a busy lady. Still, I miss her sharp commentary.) There you go -- a long answer to a short question. Best Regards, Garry Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Or Botton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 9:39 PM Subject: Huh? > "LifeCraft" SurvPC? What would that be? > > (I did notice that most of the people I know disappeared to somewhere) > To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
