== More Info ==
2.
Now Recruiting Members
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This Group Not
Yet Active
This
Yahoo group is currently set to "posting off",
i.e. INACTIVE.
We am trying to get about twenty or so people
interested in joining it, before we "turn it on"
for sending messages.
We may
or may not be able to interest enough people, to
get this Listserver started.
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A Unique Group
Subject-wise?
As far
as we can tell, there is no similar Yahoo or any
kind of a discussion group for electromechanical
automatic model train control. Please let us
know if you find an existing one that we are
duplicating.
A Standard Yahoo
Group Operations-wise
There
are hundreds of Yahoo groups in existence,
dedicated to almost any topic you can
imagine.
[ more
info about Yahoo
groups
] If you want to get an idea of what kind of
Groups exist, go to the Groups
Home Page,
and enter a subject into the search box.
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3.
Membership Settings
Membership -- By
Approval
Membership
in this group will be by approval only.
This is to keep Spammers out of the list. If
your email address looks questionable -- this
applies in particular Yahoo & Hotmail
addresses -- then we may ask you to send us your
phone number and address, so we can verify that
you are not a Spammer. (We apologize for the
inconvenience, but Spammers will RUIN any Group
that they can get into.)
Message Archives
-- Members Only
We
probably will set the message archives to
"members only".
This will keep any information you might
exchange -- such as phone numbers --
private.
This means the general public cannot view the
web page archives. I.e, to view the web
archives, you will need to be a member, and you
will also need to have a Yahoo ID to login to
view them.
The 14 Original
Members
The
group currently -- as of February 2007 -- shows
14 members. However, these people joined it back
in 2002, for a different purpose of accessing
files, which are now freely available on the
main website. Thus these original 14 will
probably leave once we start sending
messages.
For now thees original 14 members serve the
purpose of keeping the group from being deleted,
as Yahoo will delete inactive groups with too
few members.
Leaving The
Group
Note you
can always unsubscribe yourself from this or any
other Yahoo group, any time you like.
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4.
Discussion Restrictions
Discussion
on this list is limited to automatic controls
using the "non-electronic" electromechanical
systems; i.e. the magnet/reed switch/relay
systems (and similar) that LGB uses for G scale,
and possible adaptations to other scales.
Discussions
about DCC and computer-controlled DCC and G
Scale in general are considered "off topic" --
since these are covered extensively on several
Yahoo groups devoted to DCC and LargeScale --
unless the discussion relates specifically to
Automatic Control.
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