PLEASE read ALL of this important information below and PLEASE SAVE THIS EMAIL! It will HELP YOU. You WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO POST UNTIL IT IS FOLLOWED!! FAQ's are below as well as information on the service, message boards and password protected members' only areas!! Contents: I. Administration information II. Basic list information III. Sales postings twice monthly IV. Guidelines V. FAQ's (Including password questions, contact addresses, much more) I. ADMINISTRATION INFORMATION PLEASE DO NOT POST TEST EMAILS TO THE LIST, "THANK YOU's", EMAILS ASKING TO BE REMOVED, EMAILS REGARDING PASSWORDS OR LIST OPERATION!! Please see the info below regarding that. II. BASIC LIST INFORMATION All techs are welcome, but note this is an ENGLISH ONLY email list, based in the USA, so please post in ENGLISH ONLY! Posting in any other language will result in your removal! Also note that the vast majority of our members are in the USA and only service USA products. So, knowledge on certain overseas ONLY products may be limited; but, this is changing as our European & Asian membership grows. By subscribing to this list, you agree to the following terms (and terms above): ALL SUBSCRIBERS PLEASE READ! Tech-Assist is not liable or responsible for any damage or damages resulting from the use of our sites or lists, or any use of information contained therein. Not abiding by the guidelines will result in removal. THANK YOU for your interest in TechAssist and welcome. The goal of TechAssist is to help fellow technicians be more productive in their work. Troubleshooting electronic products can be both time consuming as well as costly! Someone out there may have an answer to your repair problem that will save you time. Your posts will be seen by electronic repair technicians from all over the world (currently, in every state & several countries across the globe!) This mailing list is intended to save us all time and money. Other servers charge a large fee for the same services. Whether you need help or you would like to help others, we feel you will benefit from being a part of the TechAssist community. Please give us a try! Please be prepared (at this time) to receive anywhere from 50-150+ posts per day (depending on the day of the week & traffic) if you choose the option of single emails. PLEASE make a note of our few posting guidelines below & FAQ's, as well as information on how to make this list work better for you. (AOL MEMBERS especially read!!) Please see the update at the bottom regarding modifications implemented to the server to make the list the SAFEST email list around! III. SALES POSTINGS On the 1st & 15th of each month, members can post to the list any electronic items you may have for sale. This is allowed ONLY, ONLY on the 1st & 15th of each month. The exception is, if a member posts that they NEED a certain item, feel free to respond to that post ON LIST letting them know you may have what they are looking for (so no other members will need to reply), and continue any correspondence on the matter via PRIVATE email and NOT ON LIST!! Any member posting ORIGINAL emails on items for sale other than on these dates will be removed. Please do NOT REPLY to any sales postings ON LIST! If you are interested in something or have anymore questions, send them PRIVATELY to the individual and NOT to the list. Listing 'for sale' items or services in a sig file is strictly prohibited! IV. GUIDELINES (of which most are just common sense ;-) 1. Please include ALL PREVIOUS TEXT of an email thread when you reply to a post. A reply without the original post is useless and is like listening to a one-sided telephone conversation. This means the original post, and ALL replies (if more than one) that have been sent to a specific post (known as the 'thread'). In short, just click "reply" and BE SURE ALL OF THE TEXT is in YOUR REPLY that was in the post you are replying to. This way, ALL members can read any reply to post and get an immediate history of all replies up to that point, as well as the original problem. 2. OFF TOPIC (OT) POSTS: For example, THANK YOU's, PASSWORD QUESTIONS, "TEST" EMAILS, REMOVAL, etc: Since this is now such a high traffic list, we're sorry but can no longer tolerate off topic posts! We have members leave almost everyday due to receiving too many emails. They all complain that there are too many OT posts, too many *thank you's* and too many emails regarding list operation or passwords posted to the list. The administration is ALL FOR humor, and thanking fellow members for help, so PLEASE continue to do this, but unfortunately, it CANNOT be done ON list! Please DO NOT post these type of emails to the list. Send the thank you's (i.e. "thanks, I'll try that", etc.) privately to the individual's email address and not to the list. This INCLUDES emails asking to be removed!! Please DO NOT post emails to the list asking for removal! This will do nothing but aggravate members as well as the administration. If you have nothing to contribute to a post, please DO NOT reply to it. By ONLY posting to the list emails that help ALL members, ONLY posting emails that are ON TOPIC and not off topic, and NOT deleting the previous emails on a thread, can we keep & insure that all emails posted to the list will be of use to ALL of our valued members. To sum it up; just use your head guys! :) THINK BEFORE you "reply". Just simply ask yourself, "Will this reply make sense?", and, "Will this reply be of benefit to ALL members?" Remember, your posts and replies to posts are now being seen by over 1000 members worldwide!! Don't forget we have a chat list just for OT posts! (See #7 in FAQ's below). 3. When posting to the list, in subject lines please put what the problem unit is: TV, VCR, monitor, etc, along with the brand, model #, CHASSIS & MODULE #, (for RCA's & Zeniths for example) and a brief few words on the problem. In the message body, please list the brand, model # and chassis/module # again, and give as much information as you can on the problems/symptoms and what you have checked so far. (If there is no known chassis or module #, then PLEASE STATE THIS). This makes it easier for all of us to sort the email out & save it by subject, and also much easier for members to get replies to their posts. Please SIGN YOUR NAME and *BUSINESS NAMES to your posts!! Techs like to know with whom they are dealing. Easiest way to do this is to just create a signature file. All email programs are capable of this. *If you're retired, just put retired. If you're doing it out of your back room part-time in the evenings and weekends, just call it "John Doe's TV" or "JD's TV Repair". (where 'John Doe' is your name) In order to keep this list professional as possible, this is a necessary requirement. **Those NOT following this requirement may be removed from the list without notice!! Also we have noticed that when some members reply, for some reason they feel the need to *butcher* the email or "hide" their text, where one then has to go on some "treasure hunt" to find it. Please, after you click 'reply', just put the new text at the TOP of the email like others do, so members can see the newest, latest reply to a post at the top of a thread without having to search for it. In addition, please do not remove the previous header information from the email thread. This means, when you reply to a post, please do NOT remove the email address and name from the email for the member you are replying to. When this is done, members have no way of knowing who sent the original post (or the last email in an ongoing thread) or how to respond to them if a private email is warranted. It is up to you if you want to remove the footers. It is not necessary, but it is kind to those who opt to receive the 'digest' version (see #3 in FAQ's below) of list if the footers are deleted in your replies. 4. Please do not cross-post to multiple lists or idividuals at the same time. 5. NO ATTACHMENTS allowed. Attachments CANNOT be posted to this list. They are automatically stripped by the server. This is to keep our members safe from viruses & worms. 6. NO HTML (RICH TEXT) EMAILS allowed. HTML or 'rich text' format emails CANNOT be posted to this list. They are automatically converted to plain text by the server. Again, this is to keep our members safe from viruses & worms. In our ongoing efforts for your safety, everyone can read and reply to posts here with more confidence than any other list. 7. Inactive accounts will be removed. 8. "Vacation Status" is an option when you are going on vacation, or will be away for any number of days. HOWEVER, the "vacation" option is NOT a permanent solution to not getting email. Accounts that have been on vacation status for an indefinite length of time will be removed. V. FAQs: 1. With our list, "reply" and "reply all" ("reply to group") have the SAME function. 2. Fully searchable email archives are located at //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist All messages posted to this list will be archived there and they are fully searchable. You can search for any word, and the results will show even if the word is in the message body. Good for looking for specific tips that are not in the subject line of posted messages. 3. Each member can access their accounts VIA your own "personal web interface". Here members can set the email list to 'vacation' if ever required, or set the list to "digest" mode. AFTER you have been subscribed and you login LIKE IT STATES for the first time here: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi you will be emailed a code, simply copy & paste it into the appropriate area on the next page you will see, then you can set your passwords & access the list's options. Note that after logging in, you must select OUR list (techassist)in the main menu at the left, then proceed. 4. Other potential members can subscribe to the email list at http://www.tech-assist.org/~tech-a2/secure/tip/join.htm Unsubscribing can be accomplished by sending a BLANK email to techassist-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the SUBJECT field, or at your personal web interface listed in #3, or by simply looking at the bottom of every email that is posted to the list. 5. Regarding including all previous text in your replies: For "Outlook Express" ("Outlook" should be similar): go to 'tools', 'options', then click the 'send' tab. CHECK the box 'include message in reply'. It is set this way anyway by default. For AOL one way: First drag your mouse over the ENTIRE email thread keeping the left mouse button down, and then hit 'Send Now' and low a behold there is your message you are replying to. Another way to describe it: just highlight the text and click reply, the original comes up with the insert mark flashing underneath, add you response at this point and click send. For those of you that doesn't know what "highlight" means, simply hold the left mouse button down while 'dragging' the mouse cursor over the previous text. Another way: go to www.aol.com and read your main in AOL netmail, just above the send to boxes is a check box to include original message in response. You just have to type in your screen name and AOL password at the AOL netmail log in. For other email programs; sorry we don't have that information now, but just ask your ISP if it is their email program you use, or just simply post it to our list and someone that uses your email program will reply. 6. Cross-posting (sending to more than one email repair list and/or to an individual at a time) is not allowed because of the following: When a member of any email list is not a member of ALL email lists someone cross-posts to, and they "reply all" to one of these posts, the email will be not only bounced back to the persons trying to reply to your post, but also cause bounced error messages at the email lists. Please send to ONE LIST at a time with nothing in the CC: OR BCC: field. Send to one, then simply copy and paste the text into another email, then send it. Or, simply go to your 'sent email' folder then re-send it, remove the previous header and put the other email address in the "To:" field. If you are NOT sending email to any lists, then of course it is OK and up to you if you want to CC or BCC to more than one INDIVIDUAL. 7. Your personal password protected member message board forum (this is for MEMBERS ONLY!!!) can be found here: http://www.tech-assist.org/secure/tip/mb/view.pl This would be for those of you who choose not to receive email from the repair email list, and only want to post your repair problems at this message board. Your personal password protected member download area and UPLOAD area can be found at http://tech-assist.org/secure/members/main.html Please upload any documents you may have to share in this area and FIRST PLEASE READ the 'readme' text on that page so you will upload the correct way and in the appropriate folder. Please notice that at the bottom of every email posted is where you can submit your personal fixes. http://www.tech-assist.org/secure/tip/ These tips are added to a searchable database for all members to search. Our NEW **PUBLIC** forum/message boards are here: http://www.techassist.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi 8. NOTE!!!! In order to cut down on certain ridiculous posts, emails containing certain specific words or specific phrases will get rejected. This is to help our members and cut down if not eliminate unwanted or offensive traffic. If any member posts a LEGIT post or reply to a post and you happen to have it rejected or bounced back to you, don't worry, it WILL GET APPROVED and POSTED to the list. Just delete the rejected email warning, and ignore it. Since these type emails must be approved, please BE PATIENT for the email to appear. FYI: We lose members for NOT having this function! Members that leave ALL leave for the same reason, (at least those that do respond to the email as to why one left) and it is ALWAYS the same: "Too much email". You'd be surprised how many TRY and post ludicrous emails to the list everyday, but thanks to this function, members NEVER have to see them and put up with that type of ridiculous traffic! This function cuts down on DOZENS of unwanted posts everyday! We UNDERSTAND that having your emails rejected at times can be annoying, but this function is there for a PURPOSE, and a GOOD one. Again, just IGNORE those rejection warnings & delete them. As it states in the rejection: "The post has been forwarded to the list administrator in case it is a real post." or in other words: "a legit post". The posts WILL get posted if it is a legit post, you need to do nothing other than just be patient. :-) 10. Please remember, We created this list and maintain this list for YOUR benefit, so YOU will have a great list to post your repair problems to and save yourself time, therefore money. It DOES COST to maintain the TechAssist website & member benefits, therefore we had to institute minimal dues. If one desires free membership, it is available, however it must be renewed on a monthly basis at this time. 11. To close; Guidelines are NOT there to annoy, but are there to keep this list professional, to keep the list of USE to all of us and to maintain it's standing as the best electronics repair list around. So please, follow them, they are to help all of us. Any member found not abiding by the guidelines will be placed on moderated status, then subject for removal if any inappropriate behavior or posts continue. 12. Finally, you're ready to post, send your emails to techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx PLEASE BOOKMARK our FAQ page: http://www.tech-assist.org/faq.htm and you can also receive information on specific questions by writing to the addresses below. Thank you for your time, your support, and for joining! TechAssist Administration Homepage: http://tech-assist.org Email list: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Email addresses: (Please send ALL email here FIRST!) staff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Secondary addresses) support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Sony Proj KP53HS10 Convergence Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 18:10:49 EST From: htegd@xxxxxxx Reply-To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx It seems anyone qualified to work on TV's would know this one. Is this guy licensed? We are taking business away from qualified shops by helping these guys. Tough problems we all get. But this tells me this guy does not know what he is doing. This is an every day repair. Rocky Montgomery, Pres. HiTech Electronics, Inc. Lafayette, La. htegd@xxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/ -- Doug Keller Wis-Kel Electronics 101 Freeland Ave. Terra Alta, WV USA 26764 dek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.tech-assist.org "Learn from the mistakes of others, because you won't live long enough to make them all yourself" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/