No, anybody CAN'T get ON (notice the word, which translates into "posting and receiving repiles") the A list. The A-list ARCHIVES are what are searchable through google. You don't get ON the list unless you are a professional member of techassist. The TV list is open to the general public, but not A,B, or Chat. That is part of the problem here. People grab a short term out of a 200 word explanation of what is what, and run with it like it is the Gospel. If you are NOT a PAYING MEMBER OF TECHASSIST, you DO NOT have access to send or receive email to the email lists that are set up for the professional members OF techassist. You can read the archives from A on google, and that's it. I must have been mistaken all along because I thought everyone (member) already knew that the email lists are private. That's why you MUST use the address you signed up with to use the email lists. If a post comes from a non-member email address, it goes into the ecartis blackhole and NEVER APPEARS ON THE LIST AT ALL, (unless it is forwarded to the list BY a paid member). Why do you think that it asks for your username and password to even CHANGE your email address? Could it possibly be for security reasons?? If any of you out there don't believe me, go to hotmail or yahoo or some domain, make up a bullshit email address, and try posting to techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx , repair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx , or chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx . All of this is explained on the site, so I can't even grasp why no one seems to know how the email system, that a lot have been using for 5+ years, even works. I want everyone of you to go do what I just posted above and try it. That way there will NEVER, EVER be any reason whatsoever for the topic of "But the public gets on the lists and steals our fixes, etc.". The tips need posted into the tip database instead of just being put into the archives anyway. It would be so much easier to see a post with "ctc169 - no startup - fix posted in the database" than to see it replied to 227 times on list email when everyone could then go to the SEARCHABLE TIP DATABASE and get it there. And btw, the tip database is only available for FULL, CURRENTLY PAID-UP MEMBERS also! If your dues expire and you do not renew within the grace period, you will find that your login stops working, you receive no more A , B, or Chat email, etc. This is for a REASON. The REASON is that this is set up for DUES-PAYING PROFESSIONAL TECHNICIANS. What you see on the interent is the culmination of YEARS (yes, I said YEARS) of mostly just Jay and me sitting on the computer for 27 hours a day figuring, trying, going back to the blackboard to try something different because the first, or 17th, didn't work how we wanted. Also, there are several members out there who have helped tremendously over the years trying new things out, etc. Now, everyone go try what it says above. This bullshit rhetoric of members griping about John Q. Public being on the lists is beyond old and ridiculous. Doug > DOUG Anybody can get on the A List that?s what the members were > concerned about. You can only get the A and B List if you?re a member. > > Jerry > Alpha 21 Electronics > 1840 State St. > Granite City, IL 62040 > 618-452-8620 > alpha21century1234@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Doug <dek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Must already be a member or he wouldn't > be on "A" either. Go to the home > page and subscribe. > Doug > > >> Are you already a paying member of T/A? If you are just contact Jay and >> he >> will give the email address. If not the dues is only $50.00 a year. More >> then worth that just for the schematic downloads. There are many, many, >> many benefits. Jerry >> Alpha 21 Electronics >> 1840 State St. >> Granite City, IL 62040 >> 618-452-8620 >> alpha21century1234@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> sajjad siddiquie wrote: >> how can i add my name in techlist a,b please let me know >> thanks >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This Email List is accessible to the general public through search >> engines. Remove: http://www.tech-assist.org/remove.htm >> Set Vacation >> mailto:ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=set%20techassist%20vacation >> Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". >> Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/ >> >> >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This Email List is accessible to the general public through search >> engines. 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