Information about accessing the local mailing list

The mailing list is pretty straight forward. You subscribe to the mailing list, anything that anyone sends to the mailing list will go to everyone else on the mailing list.

To subscribe just send an email to abate-niagara-request@abate-niagara.org and in the body of the message type "subscribe" without the quotes. You'll get a confirmation and you'll need to send one of them back to confirm. Instructions are in the messages. Clicking on the link above should fill this in for you and you can simply hit send. Do not include any other information in the message and be sure to send it from the same account that you want to receive the mailing list in.

Messages to be sent to the mailing list should be addressed to  abate-niagara@abate-niagara.org

To unsubsribe use the same method as subscribing only use the command: "unsubscribe"

Four notes you should be aware of:

1. Mailing list restrictions: A message can only be up to 40,000 characters long. This is more than enough for all normal messages. This restriction is in place to automatically reject messages with binaries (unless they're small ones) so servers and peoples accounts don't get slowed down or clogged. Imagine a mailing list of a thousand people and someone sends a 1Meg picture or WAV or something to the list. That's One GIG of traffic for that one message.
2. Mailing list restrictions: A message will be rejected if the header is over 1024 characters. This is in place because the server will consider anything that has such a long list of recipients or cc's to be spam. This means you shouldn't do a lot of cc'ing in a message meant for the mailing list.
3. You MUST send emails to the list from the same address that you receive them.
4. You MUST unsubscribe from the list before changing your email address then subscribe from the new one.

Information about the Usenet Newsgroup alt.motorcycles.abate

alt.motorcycles.abate is a Usenet Newsgroup that can be accessed all over the world. Because of all the places for things to get lost in the world, not all newsservers will get all messages that are sent to the newsgroup.

There are different options of connecting to alt.motorcycles.abate. You can use your newsreader to connect to your normally configured newsserver or you can use a service like Google. The links for these choices are below.

I'll just throw in at this point that Usenet has a lot of SPAM and you have to do a lot of wading to get useful info. There's a lot there though if you know how to do it.

alt.motorcycles.abate at Google Groups

rec.motorcycles at Google Groups

rec.motorcycles.harley at Google Groups

rec.motorcycles.tech at Google Groups