Rivet Counter
From Railroad Depot
The following information provides the rules and guidelines for using the Rivet Counters Yahoo! Group managed by the Railroad Depot. Please familiarize yourself with the items in this document before joining or posting messages to this group.
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What is Allowed?
- The Rivet Counters group is designed to allow you to both criticize commercially available models for their flaws, and ask prototype specific questions to help you build accurate equipment.
- Asking questions about new products to determine their suitability to your modeling efforts.
- Sharing your thoughts and disgust at obvious errors on a product you have purchased. Please note that at the current time none of the manufacturers monitor these messages, so if you have specific complaints please consider also sending them to the manufacturer.
What is Not Allowed?
- This group should not be used to ask questions about installing couplers, adding weight, or gaging wheelsets on rolling stock. We have provided a Rolling Stock Standards Group for this purpose.
- Members shall refrain from posting derogatory remarks about any other member, any model railroad product or manufacturer, or the moderators or owner of this group. This type of behavior will result in your account being banned from this group.
- Members may not use this list to attempt to sell any products or services. Offering to do work for another member and collecting for postage and materials will be allowed, but please protect your privacy and share personal information in direct e-mails and not through the group. Messages informing other members of a great deal on parts or materials will be allowed so long as the member posting the message is not compensated in any way for the sale of these items.
What does moderated mean?
In an attempt to cut down on the amount of SPAM and other junk e-mail sent to our list, we have opted to run this list moderated. This means that all new members must be approved by one of our moderators before they are allowed to post. We will try to approve all new memberships within 24 hours. New members will remain on a moderated status until they have posted at least 3 on-topic posts to the group. This means that until you are taken off of moderated status, all of your messages will require the approval of one of our moderators before it will go out to the list.
We also reserve the right to place any member back on moderated status if they post 2 or more off-topic messages after being warned about their behavior. Continued abuse of this list will result in having your membership removed and your account banned from our list. We don't want to have to do this, but to keep our list clean it is required.
Although this list is moderated, do not assume that we will be come message Nazi's. When we refer to off-topic messages we mean messages that have absolutely nothing to do with the proper operation of model railroad rolling stock, messages attempting to sell products or services, and of course any SPAM or unsolicited commercial e-mail.
Updates and Changes
We reserve the right to make changes to these rules at any time. When changes are made, a message will be sent to all active members in the list. All members must start to comply with any rule changes within 72 hours of their addition to this page.
