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Here's the general information for the list you've subscribed to, in case you don't already have it, prepared by CAP-COMM Owner Michael Marek:

Description of CAP-COMM

This list is for discussion of issues related to CAP Communications. It was formed to give CAP members a place to discuss CAP Communications issues other than in the more general CAP-TALK and other CAP-related distribution lists. This list is open to anyone, not just CAP members, as long as you are willing to take a professional approach to our conversations.

Appropriate subject matter for CAP-COMM includes the wide range of issues we deal with in CAP Communications, including operating procedures, hardware, problems faced by our system in various areas, and innovative solutions. This may include content as detailed as specific service information on specific models of radios (as long as the modifications are in compliance with appropriate regulations) and SYSOP advice for packet radio BBS software. It may also include more general subjects
like ideas for training "non-communicator" radio operators, mission communications plans, and ideas for future improvement of our overall voice and digital network.

CAP-COMM is not an official fixture of Civil Air Patrol, Inc.

Specifically, it is not a "back-door" to enable participants to circumvent the chain of command. Although Region and National staff may participate, any proposals for changes in regulations and procedures will need to go through chain-of-command channels. Unless they label the message otherwise, everyone should be understood to be speaking as individuals, and not on behalf of their CAP duty assignments.

Policies

The number one rule of CAP-COMM is "Be Polite!" There is no excuse for insults, name calling, and other types of "flames." As CAP members, we have respect for the opinions of others. If we disagree, we discuss those disagreements on a PROFESSIONAL level.

Unless otherwise stated, ALL POSTS ARE THE PERSONAL OPINION OF THE ORIGINATOR. This includes posts from the CAP National HQ domain.

The list owner reserves the right to make rulings about topics, threads and general appropriateness of message subject matter. By posting in this list you agree to comply with the rules of the list, and with rulings of the list owner.

CAP-COMM is set so that messages from addresses that are not subscribed will be bounced to the Owner for review. Similarly messages that are cross-posted with CAP-TALK are bounced for Owner approval. This is because of past problems in which people tried to incite trouble in this list.

Note: This means that if you subscribe at one address and forward messages to another address to read you will not be able to post messages from that second address.

Please limit included text in follow-ups. Please trim all unnecessary quoted material, including excess headers. Generally, readers should not have to "page down" to see the new text you have added, following a brief quote of the previous message to indicate the key points to which you are replying.

Do not send attached files with your messages. The Majordomo will not deliver attached files.

There is a growing tendency for E-Mail editors to default to sending messages in HTML format. This is not allowed in this list, because it makes the Digest unreadable and also because some subscribers do not have HTML-capable message readers. For them, your HTML-format message would be almost unreadable, due to all of the brackets with HTML formatting. If you send an HTML message, it will be bounced. You *MAY* get a manually generated reminder to send in plain text, but only if the list owner has time for such manually-sent notification.

If you know you are going to lose your Internet account, please unsubscribe from all CAP lists before the account is canceled. If you do not, messages to your former address will bounce, and each list owner will have to unsubscribe you manually. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@lists.sempervigilans.org. On the first
line, put: unsubscribe cap-comm. You may use one message to unsubscribe to other lists on the Lists.SemperVigilans.ORG Majordomo as well by putting additional unsubscribe lines in the message, one per line.

Posting & Digests

All messages sent to CAP-COMM@lists.sempervigilans.org are immediately forwarded to members of this list. There is also a digest version of the list available; subscribers to the digest version receive all the same messages, but they are collected into "digests", rather than sent as individual messages. The digests are sent daily, or more often if warranted by message volume. If you need the digest form of the list, ask the list owner.

There are a couple of reasons your messages might be "bounced" and not be
distributed to the list. The Majordomo will not transmit a message in excess of 10k. For this reason, UUENCODED files are inappropriate and lengthy quotes are discouraged. If you do decide to send a very long post, you may need to break it into multiple parts.

The Majordomo will also bounce a message with an address field longer than about 2k. Occasionally messages come along to which CAP-COMM is only one of a gazillion addressees. Since CAP-COMM already goes to a lengthy list of subscribers, it is generally not appropriate to include it with a long list of other addressees.

Please consider carefully before you send a message or a reply to more than one CAP-???? list. Many people who subscribe to multiple lists find this objectionable. Send your message to the one most relevant list, please.

Copyright

When messages submitted to the CAP-COMM listserv are distributed to subscribers, they are "published," as defined by relevant law and legal court cases because they are "fixed in a tangible means of expression."

It is the policy of CAP-COMM that the original author retains copyright to the original text of the body of the message, however by submitting the message to CAP-COMM, the author grants the list owner, or designee, the right to edit, distribute, or reject the content of the submitted message.  The message, as distributed, is copyrighted © on the date of distribution by the CAP-COMM list owner.

Messages distributed by the CAP-COMM listserv are, thus, the property of the listserv owner and may not be automatically forwarded or archived in any publicly available form, whether modified or unmodified, without the permission of the list owner. 

Nothing in this policy shall be interpreted as abridging the right:

  • Of the original author of the message to use the content in other settings,
  • Nor the right of any individual subscriber to manually forward or archive individual messages,
  • Nor of any individual subscriber to automatically forward messages to another email address to which he or she holds password access

Other Lists

There are other CAP related mailing lists on Lists.SemperVigilans.ORG. Send mail to Majordomo@Lists.SemperVigilans.ORG with the word "lists" in the body of the message for a list of the available mailing lists. The "info <list>" command will return a description of the <list>.

List Owner

I am Michael Marek, LTC, CAP. I have been a CAP member since 1983 and was
promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in 1993. I have served as South Dakota Wing Chief of Staff, Director of Communications, Wing PAO (twice), South Dakota Wing Director of Emergency Services, and have been National Digital Radio Network Manager. I am a Mission Coordinator, Mission PAO, Master Ground Team Leader and Senior Observer. I have twice served as a CAP Encampment Deputy Commander. In other parts of my life, I teach in the Mass Communication program at Wayne State College, Wayne, NE.  I am an Extra class amateur radio operator. I have also served as an American Red Cross First Aid Instructor Trainer.
 

CAP-COMM is not an official function of Civil Air Patrol.  Products or links contained on these pages have been suggested by members, but constitute no official endorsement.
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