From owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Sun Mar 2 08:22:21 2008 From: diesel-benz-digest diesel-benz-digest Sunday, March 2 2008 Volume 01 : Number 2677 Forum for Discussion of Diesel Mercedes Benz Automobiles Derick Amburgey Digest Coordinator Contents: [db] administrivia: notes on using this list [db] Re: fsj: anyone have a spare stock 2v 360 carb? [db] fuel prices 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: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 06:45:01 +0000 From: Richard Welty Subject: [db] 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 5/1/02; removed list of spam strings, as i'm not the only one filtering on them -- 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, many phrases found commonly in spam are automatically blocked. h) are you using "funky" character sets? 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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. 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For more information, see the web site. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 07:59:17 -0800 (PST) From: john Subject: [db] Re: fsj: anyone have a spare stock 2v 360 carb? while a very tempting offer, especially to be reunited with so much history... looks like I'll pass on this generous offer. we're heading out to look at a 240D for my son and going to sell the '89. not sure what we'll end up doing with the panel yet, but I've got a good weber carb in my shop already. john ----- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Snohomish, Washington -o|||||o- where Jeeps don't rust, they mold http://freegift.com ** http://wagoneers.com ** - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Greg Loxtercamp wrote: # John, I've got one. But if you take it, you have to take Fred Fitzgerald's old Qjet and Brad Seevers's old Edelbrock 4v. I don't think I'll need these anymore. I think the 2v actually came from you. I picked it up at Fred's house when he was getting rid of stuff. It was attached to the intake manifold, which long ago went to the salvage yard. Pay for the shipping and it's yours. # # Greg # # ----- Original Message ---- # From: john # To: full size jeep list # Cc: diesel-benz list # Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 9:44:31 AM # Subject: fsj: anyone have a spare stock 2v 360 carb? # # we took the '89 GW to get emissions tested, it failed # at idle... suspect the carb... haven't seen the specs yet... # # I've always suspected that this carb needs attention... # # my son has decided he wants to get a Mercedes Diesel # for commuting to school, so we're selling the '89 GW... # of course it'll sell easier if it passes emissions. :) # # john # # ----- # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # Snohomish, Washington -o|||||o- where Jeeps don't rust, they mold # http://freegift.com ** http://wagoneers.com ** # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # # # # ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 08:21:20 -0800 (PST) From: john Subject: [db] fuel prices sold the '89 GW yesterday... kind of sad, nice looking rig... we went to look at a 240D yesterday, but it was already sold. I pulled some muscles in my calf pushing my '91 GW out of the carport last weekend so I haven't been able to replace the injectors and vacuum pump on the 6.2L Diesel yet... waiting for a friend to help. looks like I'll be keeping my '91 300D and continuing to run WVO and BioDiesel... picked up 9 more gallons yesterday... :) john Gas prices soar; Diesel hits record high from: http://www.komotv.com/news/local/16148392.html Soaring Seattle-area gas prices showed no signs of slowing down as they climbed to within two cents of record levels on Saturday. Diesel prices hit record highs in many parts of the state, including the Seattle area. The average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline was $3.45 per gallon in the Seattle-Bellevue-Everett area. That's only two cents below its record high of about $3.47 per gallon, set on May 14 last year, according to AAA, which tracks fuel prices across the nation. A year ago, regular unleaded was selling for $2.55 per gallon in the Seattle area. A month ago, it was $3.04. The average price of diesel fuel in Seattle was $3.82 per gallon on Saturday - nearly a dollar more than it was a year ago. Elsewhere in Washington state, a gallon of regular unleaded was going for $3.47 a gallon in Bellingham, $3.42 per gallon in Bremerton and Olympia, and $3.40 per gallon in Vancouver. The cheapest place to buy gas in the state was in Spokane and the Tri-Cities, where it was selling for $3.31. Nationwide, the average price for regular unleaded was a little over $3.16 per gallon. In parts of California, premium unleaded gas was selling for more than $4 at some stations. The average price for premium gas in San Francisco was $3.91 on Saturday. The soaring gas prices stem from tight supplies and from near-record high prices for crude oil, experts said. ----- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Snohomish, Washington -o|||||o- where Jeeps don't rust, they mold http://freegift.com ** http://wagoneers.com ** - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of diesel-benz-digest V1 #2677 **********************************