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Mail List Posting Policy:
We have worked to hard to give Chintz Net a good
reputation, we can't risk someone having a bad experience and associating it
with us.
This message details the Chintz-Chat list rules.
This is not a buy and sell board. DO NOT post your items
for sale or at auction on this list. Please remove any "footers" from
your E-mail that advertises *any* services or websites before posting,
whether they concern chintz or not.
There are hundreds of sites on the Internet that allow
you to list items for sale, they are a dime a dozen. They turn into lists where
only dealers post items for sale and there is no real discussion going on.
Trades and swaps between collectors are quite
acceptable, and IS one of the purposes of this list. Discussion of your latest
and greatest finds is encouraged as well. Just do make your posts an
advertisement or inventory list for a specific dealer. You may see occasional
posts about updates on the Chintz Net website. Chintz Net does after all sponsor
this list. ( http://www.chintz.net )
Chintz Net strongly supports regional events. Feel free
to post information about these. Email me directly and I will advertise your
regional event on the Chintz Net website as long as it is a group event and not
simply a dealer's store event. (It may take up to 30 days to appear on the
website, so plan ahead.)
While this list often gets off the topic of chintz, this is allowed to foster
the camaraderie that is missing in so many other lists. You can always direct
the discussion yourself by making a post of your own.
*Be patient!* Sometimes your question or comment will be missed or the person
with the answer hasn't read it yet. Wait a few days and post again.
If you stick with this list you will learn more about chintz than any other
venue in the world.
I can always be contacted at webmaster@chintznet.com
to assist you.
Enjoy,
Steve webmaster@ChintzNet.com
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It is strongly advised that you keep this message for
future use!
This message details how to operate the Chintz-Chat list
via E-mail.
While you are welcome to visit the Chintz-Chat archives
at http://www.egroups.com/group/chintz
you will be required to create a password and profile if you do. The below links
are available for you to use to control your subscription via E-mail. This adds
an extra measure of privacy if you wish it.
chintz@egroups.com
posts a message to the list
chintz-subscribe@egroups.com
Subscribes you to the list.
chintz-unsubscribe@egroups.com
Unsubscribes you from the list.
chintz-nomail@egroups.com
Suspends mail from the list (vacation mode/"No Mail")
Dual purpose addresses:
chintz-digest@egroups.com
If subscribed under individual emails, switches you to digest form,
OR
If you were "No Mail", resumes receiving mail in digest form.
chintz-normal@egroups.com
If subscribed under digest form, switches you to individual emails,
OR
If you were "No Mail", resumes receiving mail in individual
emails.
webmaster@chintznet.com
Sends mail to the list owner
**Extra Special Command**
Your messages will be archived on the Internet, but your E-mail address will
ALWAYS be obscured anywhere they appear in a message. For extra security, below
is an "X Command". It tells the system not to place a
message in the archives. Use it at the end of your post and the message
will go to subscribers of Chintz-Chat, but be excluded from the archives.
Use this command when posting info you do not want to be seen on the Internet.
X-NO-ARCHIVE: YES
Enjoy,
Steve
Yes this is long, but I ask you all to read it, and
invite responses.
It was my intent to make Chintz Net's English Chintz Mail List a friendly,
chatty place where people could go to enjoy themselves.
I envisioned an old time general store where people would gather around
the pot-bellied stove, next to the cracker barrel, and swap adventures and
information. But, now it seems as people come by the store to look at the
hardware, somebody says, "Hey, don't buy that shovel until you come see the
ones I have in my shop".
What do you suppose the attitude of the owner of the general store would
be? Perhaps I have been too naive, but I would like to think better of people.
Each time a dealer has brought up that they have items for sale, I have written
them a *very* friendly note, explaining that the Mail List is paid for and
maintained by Chintz Net, and to please not make future posts about items they
have for sale. I am aghast at the responses I get 80% of the time. Most of them
are downright rude. I simply shrug my shoulders, delete the message and
unsubscribe the dealer from the mail list. But I do have to wonder what the
response of these same dealers would be if Chintz Net Items started appearing on
*their* web pages.
I see everyone that joins the Mail List on the day they join it. I could very
easily unsubscribe dealers and block them from ever joining the list again. I
also have the ability to block mentioning of certain specific words, like
business names, etc. But I do not choose to do those things. I reserve them for
people that I *know* to have engaged in fraudulent business practices, and I do
that to protect the 90% of people on this list that aren't dealers and probably
don't know who they can trust.
We have worked very hard to make Chintz Net the premiere web site for chintz on
the Internet. I, personally, have put in hundreds of hours to make it an
attractive, user friendly place to go. From the out start, I decided that all
dealers would have to fully disclose any known damage or repairs, and to offer a
3 day no questions asked return policy. ( Not to imply that any of our current
dealers had any
problems with the policy, but there are a few dealers that wanted to be on
Chintz Net that did...)
So here Chintz Net has, what I hope is, a sterling reputation. If a deal goes
bad here on the Mail List from other dealers, there is a good chance that people
might associate the unpleasant experience with Chintz Net.
I just can't allow that to happen.
Well, there is my long, rambling statement. I invite opinions in support or
contrary, in public or private. I expect the public posts to be courteous, as I
have always found them to be in the past from this group.
Regards,
Steve < webmaster@chintznet.com
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