The YCCC email list (reflector) is for sharing club announcements, information and scores, as well as for asking questions.   It's kind of like a 2-meter repeater with a radius of 175 miles.  Each message sent to the reflector is broadcast to all the subscribers.

To view the YCCC Reflector archives on the web, click on the hyperlink and use your Mailman subscription email address and password.  If you forget your password, follow the "Edit Options" instructions near the end of this page.

The address of the list is:

yccc@yccc.org

To subscribe, send an E-mail message to:

yccc-REQUEST@yccc.org

In the subject of the message, put only the word:

subscribe

Shortly afterwards, you will receive a message from the mailing list manager.  Please follow the instructions EXACTLY to confirm your subscription. After your request has been confirmed, it will be forwarded to the list owner for final approval.  This is to prevent non club members from trying to subscribe to the list.

IMPORTANT:  When you receive your final confirmation, keep it - it contains a password you will need to make any changes to your subscription, or to view the web-based archives.

There is also a digest format of this list.  Instead of receiving individual messages, all the day's messages will be gathered up into a single mail message and sent out about 11:45 p.m. local time.  Once subscribed to the main list, you can change your options to have a digest sent to you instead.  Go to the list information page and click on the "Edit Options" button at the bottom.

Because only subscribers can post to the list (to stop the flow of unsolicited E-mail or "spam"), you MUST subscribe the address that matches the From: address of your E-mail message.  Otherwise, all of your postings to the reflector will be bounced back to the list owner for manual forwarding.

A Few Hints & Kinks for Obtaining the Best Performance from Your YCCC Reflector

Send Plain Text Format Messages Only

Do not send messages to the reflector that have file attachments, HTML formatting, use boldface or other fancy fonts, etc.; such messages won't be passed on by the reflector, only plain text format will make it through without the List-Owner having to intervene.

Cut & paste your summary sheet when reporting to the Reflector

After a contest, do not send your .SUM file to the reflector as an attachment (see above). Rather, cut & paste your summary information into the body of a plain text format message. Yes, logs should be sent to contest sponsors as attachments, but then you have to also remember to use cut & paste when reporting your score to the reflector. (Yeah I know, but sometimes life is just complicated...)

Microsoft Outlook

Users of Outlook & Outlook Express need to be aware that the default behavior of these programs is to send messages that include both a plain text version AND an HTML formatted version. Messages containing HTML won't be passed on by the Reflector (see above). If you're using Outlook straight out of the box, make sure that you are using plain text format (only) when sending messages to the YCCC Reflector; particularly if you've never checked on this before. (Also remember to check this if Santa leaves a new PC under the tree). In Outlook Express there are ways for the user to specify plain text format be used for the current message, for all messages sent to an address book entry or for all messages. If you have questions about setting up your e-mail program, be it Outlook or some other program, you can ask here. There's sufficient expertise resident on this Reflector that someone should be able to provide a helpful answer.

Send Messages From An Address That's Subscribed 

The From: address in messages you send to the Reflector must match the address you used when signing up for the reflector, the address at which you now receive mail from the reflector. Only subscribers are allowed to automatically post to the YCCC Reflector (This restriction really does help to keep the junk e-mail off the Reflector). To check that a message was sent by a subscriber, Majordomo checks that the sender's e-mail address appearing in the header of the message is also in the list of subscribers. If a message is sent to the Reflector from an unsubscribed address, Majordomo considers the message as coming from a non-member of the mailing list and the message is bounced onto the list owner for approval. This is true even if the unsubscribed address happens to belong to a user subscribed under another address. If you subscribed to the Reflector using an e-mail forwarding address such as k1mk@arrl.net or k1mk@qsl.net, then your e-mail program needs to set the From: address in your messages to match your forwarding 'alias' when sending messages to the Reflector. If you post a message to the Reflector from a "unsubscribed" location such as a computer at your work or school, you also need to make sure that your e-mail program sets the From: address in your messages to match your "subscribed" address. Most e-mail software has provisions for using an alternate "identity" for just this purpose.

Majordomo will bounce all of its rejected messages on to the List-Owner. Typically he can either approve a message from an "unknown" sender (see above) or quickly "fix" many other simple problems and re-send the message right back to the list. So, if you forget and attach your .SUM file or use your work e-mail address to dash off a quick note to the reflector, your posting will eventually appear on the reflector; it might just take it a day or two before it does appear because of the human intervention that'll be required.

If you have any problems, send a message to:

yccc-owner@yccc.org

 

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