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Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 00:08:51 -0500
From: DPH <rally2xs@csi.com>
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The purpose of a new set of mailing lists is to allow you to find
intersting things to do with your car, or allow those with interesting
things to do with your car to find you.


A mailing list for this purpose has been created for all 50 states.
This means you can subscrivbe to your state's mailing list, and not hear

about activities 1000 miles away (unless maybe you're in Alaska...)


These mailing lists are for announcing and finding out about neat
car-related things to do such as swap meets, bracket drags, go-kart
races, concours, road rallies, Solo II's, SCCA road races, PCA road
races, car shows, club meetings, car club parties, and any other
car-related activity that is primarily oriented to participants and is
open to the general pubilc.


If you have an activity to promote, even if you are simply a participant

at your local strip's bracket drags, and would like to publicize it just

to get more people to run with, or if you want to find out about such
events in your state that you might have been missing, please consider
subscribing to your state's car activities list.


To subscribe, you can either:


Send an e-mail message to XX-ACTIVE-CARS-subscribe@onelist.com, where XX

is your state's 2 letter postal code.  For example, someone in Virginia
would send a message to VA-ACTIVE-CARS-subscribe@onelist.com.  The
message doesn't need a subject or body text.  The server will send you
back a confirmation message which you simply reply to - just send it
right back to the server.  It doesn't matter that your mail program puts

those little carets on the left of the text.  Just send the message back

and you should then get a welcome message to the list.  If you don't get

the welcome message, you aren't subscribed - the process failed for some

reason. You might then want to try the other method, which is:


Go to the onelist web site at www.onelist.com.  Search for your state's
car activities mailing list by searching for XX-ACTIVE-CARS, where XX is

your state's 2 letter postal code.  You would search for VA-ACTIVE-CARS
if you were from Virginia, for example.  The procedure will to subscribe

to the list will be as obvious as most other things on a web page.


Why did I do this?  Its because I'm an avid road rallyist (see my e-mail

address) and I belive it to be one of the most fun things you can do
with your clothes on.  We in road rally have trouble getting response
from advertisements placed in even very large newspapers.  I think by
creating these lists, and offering the ability for car-people to find
the things they like to do more easily, I can inform these car-oriented
people of road rally events close to them without giving money to
newspapers and get a more likely audience to boot.


But its not all selfish, since by creating the lists, I give you the
ability to do exactly the same thing.  Advertise or find the car event
that YOU like to do - for free.  And hopefully you'll consider doing
some new kinds of car events, and one of them might just be a road
rally.


Dave Head
rally2xs@csi.com
