From owner-diesel-benz-digest@digest.net Wed Jan 2 02:04:00 2013 From: diesel-benz-digest To: diesel-benz-digest@digest.net Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 10:03:44 +0000 Subject: diesel-benz-digest V1 #3712 diesel-benz-digest Wednesday, January 2 2013 Volume 01 : Number 3712 Forum for Discussion of Diesel Mercedes Benz Automobiles Derick Amburgey Digest Coordinator Contents: [db] administrivia: notes on using this list [db] flying spring clips Diesel Benz Digest Home Page: http://www.digest.net/diesel-benz/ Send submissions to diesel-benz-digest@digest.net Send administrative requests to diesel-benz-digest-request@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: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 06:45:02 +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@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@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@bedrock.org fflinstone@wilma.bedrock.org flintstonef@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? [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@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@BarneyCo.com was once fflintstone@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@digest.net or bmw-digest@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@krusty-motorsports.com) isn't working for you, you can fall back on rwelty@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@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: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 02:02:54 -0800 From: Bruce Caruthers Subject: [db] flying spring clips Well, that could have gone better... Got back from Costa Rica on Sunday, got the thermostat o-ring from the dealer on Monday, removed the thermostat and fuel lines in 30-degree sunshine today (Tuesday), cut new fuel lines, cleaned all the connections and such. Then sent the spring clip into orbit somewhere out by Jupiter apparently when I removed it to replace the o-ring. Hopefully those spring clips (or whatever that metal thing is called that holds in the plastic part of the fuel heater thermostat?) are available individually and inexpensively. On the maybe-plus side, removed the driver door lock to see if I could swap in the one from the wreck for now (since the current one wasn't locking anyway). Discovered that the '87 has some sort of wiring going to the tumblers. But the tumblers (which price has soared to over $200 from the $60 or so a year or two ago for the '93) are actually fine. Looks like the actual door mechanism is what is jammed up. Maybe just needs lubrication, since all the doors' locks are really stiff. Also, went and bought some more service manual CDs to add to the w124 ones Edward Pomeroy so generously sent me back in 2005 when I got the '93 (thanks again, Edward!). Hopefully they are indeed what I read them to be. w114/w115 service manual CD (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=321040616380) r129 service manual CD (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320908607931) 722.3/.4 tranny service manual CD (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=221164264327) Still need to figure out where all the missing fuel is going. Getting about 15-16 mpg, no significant smoke, good power and response, no visible significant leaks. I assume it must be leaking on the return lines somewhere (given the lack of effect on the engine's behavior), but I don't see any obvious signs. I can't imagine the motor would just eat up that much more fuel without smoking or giving off other signs. Going to look at a 1995 E300 diesel (124.131, OM606.910 non-turbo) out in Granite Falls on Saturday, hopefully. The plan would be to have it replace the '87 and its neverending issues, if it is in good shape and we're okay with the non-turbo performance. (http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/cto/3505692125.html) I really only want the r129 to be a "project" -- already a bit more so than planned, due to the trunk fire. If the '95 falls through, there's still that '99 E300 (still being listed on Craigslist and on the lot's web page), perhaps. - -bkc Lynnwood, WA (his) '76 MB 240D [W115.117/616.916] (acquired 11Jun76) (hers) '92 Toyota Celica GT (SOLD!!!) (ours) '87 MB 300D Turbo [W124.133/603.960] (acquired 21Apr12) (ours) '91 MB 300SL-24 [R129.061/M104.981] (acquired 25May12, diesel engine swap planned from wrecked W124 OM602) (RIP) '93 MB 300D 2.5 Turbo [W124.128/602.962] (totaled 28Mar12) ------------------------------ End of diesel-benz-digest V1 #3712 **********************************