From: owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net (diesel-benz-digest) To: diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Subject: diesel-benz-digest V1 #749 Reply-To: diesel-benz-at-digest.net Sender: owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Errors-To: owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Precedence: bulk diesel-benz-digest Tuesday, April 16 2002 Volume 01 : Number 749 Forum for Discussion of Diesel Mercedes Benz Automobiles Derick Amburgey Digest Coordinator Contents: administrivia: notes on using this list 3.0L 5cyl turbodiesel into large Pickup? Re: Interesting item on eBay web site item#1821221742: Mercedes-Benz : 200-Series Re: 3.0L 5cyl turbodiesel into large Pickup? Re: Interesting item on eBay web site item#1821221742: Mercedes-Benz : 200-Series Diesel Benz Digest Home Page: http://www.digest.net/diesel-benz/ Send submissions to diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Send administrative requests to diesel-benz-digest-request-at-digest.net To unsubscribe, include the word unsubscribe by itself in the body of the message, unless you are sending the request from a different address than the one that appears on the list. Include the word help in a message to stag-digest-request to get a list of other majordomo commands. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 01:45:00 -0400 From: Richard Welty Subject: administrivia: notes on using this list Digest.Net mailing list "Meta FAQ" These general notes on using Digest.Net mailing lists are posted on the 1st and 15th of each month. This file may be found on the web at http://www.digest.net/general-notes.txt [last revised 11/13/01; extensive revisions to 1.j, 1.k -- rpw] Additional information on Digest.Net's spam policies may be found at http://www.digest.net/email-policy.html and http://www.digest.net/blocked.html Table of Contents 1. Why don't my postings go through? 2. Why can't I unsubscribe? 3. How do I post to the list? 4. Where are the archives? 5. What other lists are on digest.net? 6. Is there a web subscription form? 7. Why not move the lists to someplace like (egroups, topica,...)? 8. How do I contact the server adminstrator in an emergency? 9. What is Krusty Motorsports, anyway? The Meta-FAQ 1. Why don't my postings go through? There are several things that may interfere with postings making it to the list. a) Are you a member? Some read the ftp archives rather than receiving the list in email. Persons who read the list via email are automatically members, but readers of the FTP archive are not, and need to contact me (rwelty-at-krusty-motorsports.com) and get your name added to the list of "permitted senders". b) has your email address changed? some of you have had changes in your email address. your old address still works, and is still on the list, but your From: line shows a new address. this can happen for various reasons; you may have changed jobs or ISPs, and left a forward in place, or your IT staff may have fiddled with the email system. you will need to unsubscribe your old email address and subscribe the new one. this may require my involvement, if you can't figure out a way to get your old address off the list using the conventional majordomo commands. you can use the majordomo "which" command to probe for old addresses. send a message to majordomo-at-digest.net with one or more which commands in the body, one per line. to check for potential addresses for Fred Flinstone, formerly of bedrock.org, the following commands can be sent: which flintstone which bedrock note that the matches above might return any of the following addresses, if they appear in the list (in other words, you can use vagueness and incompleteness in your recollection as a tool): Fred.Flinstone-at-bedrock.org fflinstone-at-wilma.bedrock.org flintstonef-at-bedrock.com c) do you have more than one email address? if so, only the subscribed addresses can post, unless you contact me (see 1.a) above for relevant information) d) are you using (intentionally or accidentially) special "features" of your mail client? [this section is no longer operative, as the demime software now strips html, attachments, rich text format, etc. from postings automatically.] e) are your posts too large? there is a 10,000 character limit on posting sizes; this is done for various reasons. you can always split up large postings to get mail through. f) are you including majordomo commands at the start of your message? administrivia control is turned on; this is a trap for things like "unsubscribe" at the start of a message. try to avoid obvious majordomo commands in the subject and the first 10 lines, or misspell them in obvious ways (e.g. unzubscribe, 1ndex, h3lp, g3t, etc.) g) are you triggering spam traps? some things are red flags; for example, the following phrases in subject lines are automatically blocked: Important Message From growth stocks free calling card direct e-mail secrets Merchant Account Mass Marketing make money fast Pediatric advice Email ? Million People what "they" don't want are you being investigated the actual list is quite a bit longer; i think you get the idea. h) are you using "funky" character sets? [7 bit restriction lifted experimentally on 8/2/00 -- film at 11] unfortunately, there are "issues" if i permit any character set other than old fashioned 7 level ASCII; therefore, you need to avoid national character sets that include various accents, umlauts, national currency characters such as the British pound symbol, etc. i) are you unintentionally including complete digests in your reply? You need to check and make sure you cut down replys to the minimal size; digests are between 20,000 and 25,000 characters in length, and if you include a complete digest in your reply, it clearly won't make the 10,000 character limit. By the way, this feature is intentional. j) Are you using a "bad" ISP or mail relay? See http://www.digest.net/email-policy.html for more information about Digest.Net policies about email. k) Is the error message you get back "User Unknown"? If so, you may be running afoul of spam control severices (again, see http://www.digest.net/email-policy.html) When these services register a hit, the error code 550 is returned. 550 is a generic code that many broken mail systems report as "user unknown". The "rejectlog" entries for the previous day's mail traffic on digest.net may be viewed at http://www.digest.net/rejectlog.01 Some of you may find it useful or instructive to use the telnet program to connect directly to port 25 on krusty-motorsports.com and see what kind of reply you get; this requires some technical knowledge and is not for everyone (you can get out of this at anytime after the initial banner simply by typing quit and hitting enter.) l) Is SMTP over TLS involved? This is a bit esoteric, but as of 8/8/01 the digest.net mail server will attempt to use "TLS" (Transport Layer Security) for outbound mail if the destination mail server offers it. SMTP over TLS is fairly new technology, and a bit buggy. I am monitoring the logs on the server, and when I see TLS related problems, I manually place the problem destinations on a special exception list; however, this may delay email to the destination host until I make the exception. 2. Why can't I unsubscribe? a) are you using the right address? send to majordomo-at-digest.net, and the command format is unsubscribe list-name my-email-address b) has your email address changed? majordomo has no way of knowing that Fred.Flinstone-at-BarneyCo.com was once fflintstone-at-bedrock.org. you can check this with the which command (see 1.b) above for details) 3. How do I post to the list? You may use either one of two addresses: for example, the bmw-digest may be reached using either bmw-at-digest.net or bmw-digest-at-digest.net If you are using the correct addresses and your posts don't show up, check out the stuff in 1. above. 4. Where are the archives? see ftp://ftp.digest.net/ for digest archives. the web archives have proven problematic, and are awaiting time for a systematic attack on the problems they've been having. 5. What other lists are on digest.net? see http://www.digest.net/ for more information. 6. Is there a web subscription form? Yes, recently added. go to http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi 7. Why not move the lists to someplace like (egroups, topica,...)? The Krusty Motorsports server (aka, digest.net) was explicitly to provide for efficient management of the various automotive mailing lists, done the way that the owner of the server wanted it done. Any migration off of the server (which is already bought, paid for, and configured) would create any number of issues. 8. How do i contact the Server Administrator in an emergency? If my regular email address (rwelty-at-krusty-motorsports.com) isn't working for you, you can fall back on rwelty-at-suespammers.org 9. What is Krusty Motorsports, anyway? Krusty Motorsports (http:/www.krusty-motorsports.com/) is a business which is owned and operated by Richard Welty (rwelty-at-krusty-motorsports.com). Krusty is an S-Corporation in the State of New York. Krusty provides a number of Internet related services, such as mailing list, web sites, pop3/telnet accounts, and consulting on internet related issues. For more information, see the web site. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 23:48:50 -0700 From: Michael Griffith Subject: 3.0L 5cyl turbodiesel into large Pickup? Good evening. I am contemplating the possibility of installing a Mercedes turbodiesel in a large (6400GVW) pickup. Any advice, suggestions, BTDT? I am thinking that it might be underpowered for the application, but am open to information to the contrary. Michael Griffith 5 VW Beetles 1 Toyota Camry 1 Mercedes 300D 1 International 3/4 Ton Pickup. _____________________________ To every complex problem, there is a set of simple, neat solutions, which cause an infinite variety of new problems, without solving the original one. These are wrong, and should be discarded out of hand. They are very popular however with politicians. ___________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 20:24:13 -0700 From: john meister Subject: Re: Interesting item on eBay web site item#1821221742: Mercedes-Benz : 200-Series it's on the other side of the mountains... :) Tri-Cities is about a 4 or 5 hour drive from Seattle... forget which three cities are involved... but I know it's a ways away... since when does a 240D only have 2 doors??? :) On 4/15/02 7:01 PM, "delorean-at-compusnet.com" wrote: > Hey John, thought you might like a challenge... plus its in your neck of the > woods.... > > John > > Title of item: Mercedes-Benz : 200-Series > Seller: tricitysound > Starts: Apr-13-02 13:21:16 PDT > Ends: Apr-20-02 13:21:16 PDT > Price: Starts at $100.00 > To bid on the item, go > to: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1821221742 > > > Item Description: > > Mercedes 240D Parts Car >> > Vehicle Description > Car is in good shape other than the motor has a knock > Vehicle Condition > Motor has knock, still runs > > Terms of Sale >> Will not ship >> Visit eBay, The World's Online Marketplace TM at http://www.ebay.com - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** john-at-wagoneers.com often via PINE on Linux ** (prefer plain text emails please!) ** http://wagoneers.com ** ** http://freegift.net ** Snohomish, Washington USA - where Jeeps don't rust, they mold. ...and remember, leaving life without Jesus just isn't recommended... - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 22:38:48 -0700 From: "Dan J." Subject: Re: 3.0L 5cyl turbodiesel into large Pickup? At 11:48 PM 4/14/2002 -0700, Michael Griffith wrote: >Good evening. > I am contemplating the possibility of installing a Mercedes >turbodiesel in a >large (6400GVW) pickup. Any advice, suggestions? How much does a 300SD weigh? If the weight is close to your rig, than I'd do it, if I had a lot of time, money, and patience. I don't have any of those things. Diesel Dan http://dieseldan.net AIM screen name: dieseldanotr ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 10:27:37 -0500 From: John Fieber Subject: Re: Interesting item on eBay web site item#1821221742: Mercedes-Benz : 200-Series On Monday, April 15, 2002, at 10:24 PM, john meister wrote: > it's on the other side of the mountains... :) Tri-Cities is about a 4 > or 5 > hour drive from Seattle... forget which three cities are > involved... but > I know it's a ways away... Richland, Pasco and Kennewick. > since when does a 240D only have 2 doors??? :) Maybe the seller means two working doors? - -john ------------------------------ End of diesel-benz-digest V1 #749 *********************************