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Subject: usna-net Safe Harbor Program and Our Classified Ads...
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A special message from your Moderators...

Just because it's almost the end of the year, I wanted to remind our members
of a couple of things.  Our Safe Harbor Program and Our Classified Ads.

USNA-Net's Safe Harbor Program...
Three years ago, we set up a toll free 800 number for Midshipmen to call if
they find themselves stranded anywhere in the US and need emergency
assistance.  We have parents in virtually every corner of the country who
have volunteered to render assistance to any Mid who needs help while
traveling away from the Yard.

Since summer is coming and the Brigade will be traveling all over, we wanted
to remind our parents to do two things...  1.)    Sign up as a volunteer for
Safe Harbor in your area and 2.)    Make sure your Mid has a Safe Harbor
card in their wallet before they head out this summer.  To print out a
wallet card, visit our main web site at www.USNA.org and click on the Safe
Harbor Life Preserver in the upper right of the main page.  Follow the
instructions you'll find there to print out a wallet card or to volunteer,
or both.


Our Classified Ads...
Please remember that you can now visit our Classified Ads without the need
to enter a User Name or Password.  We opened them up so that the general
public may view them as well as our members. (You still have to be a member
to advertise in the Classifieds.)

We have loads of bargains from authentic Bill the Goat Wool to Cars, Trucks
and computers for sale.  AND...  Our latest addition is an ad by Academy
Frames who are offering REALLY GREAT PRICES on Custom Frames just in time
for Graduation and Commissioning.  These Frames are licensed by the Naval
Academy who receives a portion of the proceeds of all sales.  Prices are
well below those charged by others and include all shipping, handling and
insurance.  If you know someone who is looking for a great gift idea for
your '04, check out our Classifieds and Academy Frames.

For that matter, all of the ads in our Classifieds are placed there by our
members.  Do your part and patronize our Classifieds and help another
parent.

Go Navy...

Mike Zets
Westlake, OH
mzets@USNA-Net.org
Moderator - USNA-Net Listservers
SysOp - www.USNA-Net.org

PS...  Have you thought about a USNA-Mom Pin for Mother's Day.  Orders
placed in the next couple of days can still be delivered by Mother's Day.
Click on our On-Line Store Banner at the bottom of the main page or in our
Classified Ads.  These are really beautiful pins and are ONLY available from
USNA-Net's On-Line Store.

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From owner-usna-net@usna-net.org  Fri May  7 10:13:25 2004
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Subject: usna-net A few new web sites...
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A special message from your Moderators...

Just a quick note to announce a few more additions to our USNA Family of web
sites.

In the past few weeks, we've added several new Parents' Club Web Sites to
our already impressive collection of sites which we host for local area
Parents club.

As of this morning, USNA-Net hosts 36 of the 50 Local Parents Club web sites
of which we are aware.  These sites range from a few with only a couple of
pages to some fairly extensive sites with club newsletters and member
directories published in a "Club Members' Only" areas and extensive photo
galleries and parents' handbooks.

Even if you have visited some of these sites in the past, there is a lot of
new and updated content to be shared.  The latest sites are...

Our latest for Minnesota Parents at www.USNA-PAMN.org

Another for Southwestern Ohio & Northern Kentucky at www.USNA-SWOPC.org

And 5 new sites in Florida at www.USNA-PCF.org.

But the easiest way to access ALL of the 50 web sites operated by local
parents' clubs is to visit our main site at www.USNA.org and click on
"Parents' Club Web Sites" in the main menu on the left of the main page.
This brings up a map of the US with all of the areas which have a web site
highlighted in yellow.

When Sandi and I first published this map on our own NE Ohio Club Web Site
at www.NEONAP.org in June of 1998, it was almost all red with only a few web
sites shown in yellow.  A lot has changed since then, including the program
started three years ago by USNA-Net to host web sites at no charge for any
local parents club which requested it.  We now provide free server space for
36 local clubs.  If your local club wants it very own web site, all you need
to provide is the member who will be responsible for authoring the pages.
USNA-Net provides everything else at no charge.  We register your very own
Domain Name for your site (www.USNA-YOURCLUB.org) and provide all of the
necessary server amenities including CGI, MySQL & php.  All this, through
the kindness and generosity of YOU, our USNA-Net members.

Look for a club site near you and make sure you tell your club officers how
much you appreciate their efforts to establish and maintain a web site for
your club.  They'll be glad to know that you use the web site and consider
it a valuable part of your club membership.

Go Navy....

Mike Zets
Westlake, OH
mzets@USNA-Net.org
Moderator - USNA-Net Listservers
SysOp - www.USNA-Net.org

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From owner-usna-net@usna-net.org  Sat May  8 12:47:16 2004
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Subject: usna-net Housekeeping...
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A special message from your Moderators...

As things are a bit slow today, it's a perfect time for a few reminders that
I like to call "housekeeping" issues.  Please take a moment to read down
through this stuff because some of it will apply to everyone on USNA-Net.


SUMMER VACATIONS...
If you're going to be away for TWO WEEKS OR MORE and don't want to find all
that USNA-Net mail waiting for you when you return, drop me a PRIVATE note
and we will remove you from our lists until you tell us you're back.  This
should be a private note to mzets@USNA-Net.org for BOTH the stop and the
restart.  We're happy to do it for our members but please don't ask if it's
only going to be a few days or a long weekend.  And while I'm at it, please
don't do this "in advance."  Send the stop notice on the day you want the
mail to stop and send another note when you want it to restart.  I can't
keep track of start and stop dates for over 3,000 members who want it
stopped on the 17th and restarted on the 6th of next month.  I don't keep a
social calendar next to my keyboard.  :>)

By the way, we don't HOLD the mail.  We STOP the mail.  It's never sent.
Mail you don't receive will be available in the archives but we won't send
it along when you return.  Catching up is your responsibility.


SUBSCRIBING TO ADDITIONAL LISTS...
To subscribe to an additional list, simply send the moderators a note at
Moderator@USNA-Net.org from the address under which you are already
subscribed.  Please don't use the Subscription form on the web site unless
you're a completely NEW member applying for the first time.

UNSUBSCRIBING...
To unsubscribe from one or more of our lists, simply click on the unsub link
at the bottom of every message which we send out.  In the email make sure
you tell us which list(s) you wish to be removed from, if it's more than
that particular list.  If you ask to be removed from USNA-Family, you will
be removed from all lists since that is our main list and all parents of
current Mids are required to belong to that list.

CHANGES OF ADDRESS...
To change your address, send a note to Moderator@USNA-Net.org FROM YOUR OLD
ADDRESS and tell us what your NEW address will be.  We will change it in our
system at that time.  Again, don't tell us weeks ahead of time, we can't
keep track of that stuff.  We'll make the change at the time we receive the
note.


ANONYMOUS POSTS...
If you wish to ask a question or provide an answer ANONYMOUSLY, send your
email to Moderator@USNA-Net.org.  I will send it along to the appropriate
list after I have removed all traces of who wrote it.  PLEASE NOTE in your
message that you wish it to be anonymous.

If you are replying to an anonymous post and you don't mind if others know
who you are, please send the response directly to the list on which the
original message was posted.  IF YOU WISH TO RESPOND ANONYMOUSLY, please
send it to Moderator@USNA-Net.org and MAKE SURE you tell me if you wish your
answer to be sent to the ENTIRE LIST or JUST TO THE ORIGINAL AUTHOR and
whether or not you wish to be identified to the original author or not.  We
will not guess at your intentions and having to write back and ask can slow
your response by several days at times.  Be explicit as to what you want in
your original note.


PRIVATE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS...
Often we hear from members who ask us a question directly rather than
posting the question to the list.  We're flattered that some of you do this
but most of the time, your questions are the same as other members might
have at that time.  Please consider sending your questions to the lists
instead of to Sandi or me.  That way others will hear both the question AND
the answer.

Also, when you write to answer a question, please consider answering it ON
THE LISTS rather than sending a note privately to the individual author.
Many times we hear from members who publicly thank our membership for the
mountains of email they received in response to their question but we see
only a handful of responses posted to the list, if any.  At times there are
NO answers to the list.  When you answer privately, you are depriving all of
your fellow members of your answer when they need that information just as
much as the individual who asked the question.  Sure there are some things
which should be exchanged privately but, for the most part, by answering
privately, you end up depriving other members of the benefits of your advice
and support and Advice and Support is our only Mission at USNA-Net.

Help us to help other parents by responding to the lists as often as
possible.  It's easy.  Just hit Reply to All on your email program instead
of just hitting Reply.


RECEIVING MAIL...
FULL MAILBOXES - In order to continue to receive email from our lists, you
can't let your mailbox get full.  When it does, ALL of your email (not just
mail from USNA-Net but even the mail from your Mid) will be rejected until
you empty your mailbox and make room for new, incoming mail.  If your
MAILBOX IS FULL, we will eventually remove you from our lists but not until
after your ISP has generated Delivery Failure Notices for a couple of weeks.
We get a separate notice for EVERY email that is not delivered.  If we have
a dozen full mailboxes, I get a dozen notices for every message sent to each
list. This results in a lot of extra email for your moderators because YOUR
mailbox is full.  Please keep your mailbox from filling up.

SPAM FILTERS & SECURITY SETTINGS - Almost once a week, a member somewhere
goes into their email program and tinkers with the security settings or
installs a spam filter which stops email from email addresses that the
member doesn't know.  As a result, ALL MAIL FROM USNA-NET STOPS.  If you
tell your email program or spam filter to not accept mail from people you
don't know, remember that you can't know all of the over 3,000 members of
USNA-Net who might chose to write to the lists.  USNA-Net email comes FROM
our individual members and will be rejected if you set your program this
way.  If we can't reach you, we have no choice but to remove your from our
lists, if you won't accept mail from us.

That's enough for now.

Thanks for reading it all.  Have you recruited an '08 member yet?????  What
are you waiting for?  Somebody helped you find us.  Pass along the kindness.
Please?

Mike Zets
Westlake, OH
mzets@USNA-Net.org
Moderator - USNA-Net Listservers
SysOp - www.USNA-Net.org

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From owner-usna-net@usna-net.org  Fri May 14 12:05:36 2004
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Subject: usna-net USNA Icon for your Desktop
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A special message from your Moderators...

Computers have made me lazy.  There's just no way around that or any way to
say it more truthfully.  If I can click ONCE instead of TWICE, look out.
That's for me.  And as these friendly little "demons of the desk" have
gotten more and more complex, it takes more and more to navigate around to
do what you wanted to do.  Don't you just hate that?  Don't you just wish
things could be a bit easier?

If you're like me, any little thing that makes my life simpler is like
"Found Money."  :>)

So I wanted to share my Desktop Icon that, when clicked, fires up my
Internet Explorer and automatically loads USNA-Net's Home Page without
having to set it as my home page or hunt through a long list of Favorites or
anything else.  One click.  Bang!  I'm there!  After all, why complicate
your life when you can have a single button to click?

And NOT JUST ANY BUTTON!  It's a custom USNA CREST ICON created from
scratch, pixel by pixel, by our very own Moderator, Sandi.  She spent hours
getting it absolutely perfect and deserves a big Bravo Zulu for her creative
skills.  (Did she tell you that our son, Michael Stoker, '00, made full
Lieutenant (O-3)  a month ahead of the rest of his class and is off to serve
his next tour in London!   She too modest but I'll brag about him.  But I
digress...)

We've all seen images of the crest a thousand times but this one is an .ICO
file that is used exclusively as an ICON for Windows applications.  It
needed special software to create the original file but thanks to Sandi,
your favorite crest can now be displayed as the icon for any shortcut you
wish to place on your desktop or anywhere else in your computer.

Because setting this up is a simple but little known Windows procedure, I've
put together step-by-step, illustrated instructions on how to add the
Shortcut (complete with custom Icon) to your desktop.

Just go to our USNA-Net homepage at www.USNA.org and click on the graphic
that says, "Free USNA-Net Shortcut Icon for Windows."  It will take you two
minutes to read and follow the simple instructions on how to create the
Desktop Icon for YOUR computer.

And won't it be nice to be able to get to us with a single click?

Take a moment to put our shortcut on your Desktop today.  And remember...
USNA-Net is the ONLY place you can get this ICON file.

Mike Zets
Westlake, OH
mzets@USNA-Net.org
Moderator - USNA-Net Listservers
SysOp - www.USNA-Net.org

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From owner-usna-net@usna-net.org  Mon May 17 13:39:15 2004
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Subject: usna-net Vacations and Suspensions...
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A special message from your Moderators...

Ladies and Gentlemen,

USNA-Net has always offered a suspension service for those members who are
going to be away from home for extended periods.  But when we say "extended'
periods, we must ask that they really are EXTENDED periods of a minimum of
14 days or longer.

With Herndon on Thursday and Ring Dance on Saturday followed by
Commissioning Week next week, most of the Plebe and Firstie Parents will be
away for a short period of time over the next week or two.  Please don't ask
us to suspend your subscription for 5 or six days.

Can you possibly imagine the amount of work involved in individually
unsubscribing and then resubscribing almost half of our entire membership of
over 3,100 families?

We ask that you ONLY request suspension for extended absences and we will
obviously be glad to do so.

Also...

Please wait to request the suspension ON THE DAY you want your mail to stop.
Then, send another email to us WHEN YOU RETURN to ask for reinstatement.  We
can't keep track of a request to restart mail in X weeks.  Your mail will
remain stopped until we hear from you with a second email.

By the way,   Have you recruited an '08 Parent yet?  What are you waiting
for?  If someone hadn't told you about USNA-Net, think of all of the great
information you would have missed in the weeks before I-Day.  Don't let the
next generation of Parents suffer for one minute more without USNA-Net. Just
have them visit our web site at www.USNA.org and click on "How to Subscribe"
in our main menu on the left of the main page.

Thanks for your consideration,

See you all at Buddy's on Wednesday Night, May 19th from 2100 to 2400 for
our 6th Annual USNA-Net Get Together.  I can't wait!!!

GO NAVY !!!

Mike Zets
Westlake, OH
mzets@USNA-Net.org
Moderator - USNA-Net Listservers
SysOp - www.USNA-Net.org

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From owner-usna-net@usna-net.org  Sun May 30 17:15:38 2004
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Subject: usna-net Another Day - Another Hit
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A special message from your Moderators...

As I sat in front of my computer last evening, the day after Commissioning,
2004, the hit counter on our main web site (www.USNA.org) recorded its
950,000th visitor.  It brought back memories of the day I first placed that
counter on the site...  9 Mar 1999.  The site had been operational for
several months and I was curious to see how many visitors our little web
site was receiving.  Little did I suspect that just five years and a few
months later, we would be anticipating our 1 MILLIONTH visitor in just a few
weeks...  certainly before the end of Plebe Summer.

USNA-Net actually got its start in June of 1998... long before that hit
counter went "on-line."   We asked a handful of webmasters for local
parents' club web sites if they would like to get together On-Line to share
Advice and Support on Navy Parenting.  They were parents just like you with
a need for Advice and Support that ONLY other Parents can provide.  They
joined and USNA-Net was born.   We've been making history and setting
precedents ever since.  USNA-Net has been run FOR Parents, BY Parents ever
since.  And some of those original "Charter" members are still enrolled
today.

USNA-Net is the ORIGINAL Naval Academy Parents' Network.

We pioneered the Parent Net concept for Naval Academy Parents.  Until we set
it up, no one had ever tried to apply the listserv concept to Naval Academy
Parenting.  It grew by leaps and bounds.  Today, that handful of charter
members has grown to a group of over 3,200 Families and still growing.
Anyone care to guess our membership count by the end of this summer?

To this day, USNA-Net is the ONLY Parents' Network run exclusively BY and
FOR Parents of Midshipmen.

USNA-Net is the ONLY Parents' Network that operates a Prayer List for the
benefit and comfort of their members.

USNA-Net is the ONLY Parents' Network which emails a detailed long range
five day Annapolis WEATHER forecast directly to almost 800 members' inboxes
each morning and special advisories immediately from the National Weather
Service 24/7/365.

USNA-Net is the ONLY Parents' Network which operates its own Annapolis
Weather Service with weather statistics, maps, local radar, and provides an
"Annapolis Cam" on City Docks for it members to keep tabs on their Mid's
home in Annapolis, 24/7.

USNA-Net is the ONLY Parents' Network to conceive, organize and operate the
SAFE HARBOR program to provide help to Midshipmen who need emergency
assistance whenever or where ever they travel around the US and abroad.  Our
1,130 Safe Harbor volunteers are ready 24/7 to rush to the aide of ANY Mid
who calls our Toll Free Number day or night.

USNA-Net is the ONLY Parents' Network with 675 pages of information on their
web site at www.USNA.org  including over 460 Pages of textual Advice and
Support on nothing but Navy Parenting.

USNA-Net is the ONLY Parents' Network with over 16.2 MILLION words of Advice
and Support in our SEARCHABLE Archives and growing all the time.

USNA-Net is the ONLY Parents' Network that hosts 38 Local Parents Club Web
Sites at no charge to the clubs for either the basic server space or their
very own DOMAIN NAME for the club.  No hassle registration and automatic
Domain Renewal every year for the club.  www.YourOwnClubWebSite.org just for
your club, courtesy of USNA-Net.  No strings attached.  Not now... Not ever.

USNA-Net is the ONLY Parents' Network which currently operates SIX (6) email
lists: Net, Family, Plebe, Prayer, Weather and Info.  With additional lists
coming very soon.

USNA-Net is the ONLY Parents' Network which uses our Network to promote June
as "Join Your Local Parents' Club Month" for the past five June's, during
which we've mailed out over 14 Million emails, each with a footer
encouraging all of our members to find and join their local parents club.

USNA-Net is the ONLY Parents' Network which publishes its updated membership
numbers daily for all lists and by Grad Year so you can see how large we
have grown over the years and how many fellow parents belong to our
organization.

Remember, www.USNA-Net.org is a .ORG not a .COM !!!    We operate as a
non-profit organization set up exclusively for the benefit of PARENTS!!!  No
one else!!!  We are not affiliated with any other organization, either
non-profit or for profit.

USNA-Net is the ONLY Parents' Network which is 100% volunteer.  The funds
donated to USNA-Net during our once a year fund raiser stay right here with
USNA-Net.  They are not combined with other funds or used for other
purposes.  Funds donated to USNA-Net benefit Parents of Midshipmen and USNA
Parents Clubs exclusively.  They are never passed along to other
organizations.  Hence we need far less money to operate.  AND 100% of our
budget goes toward the operation of our .ORG.   We have no paid employees or
contracted fundraisers.

USNA-Net is the ONLY Parents' Network which does not share YOUR membership
information with other organizations.

USNA-Net is the ONLY Parents' Network without allegiances or affiliations
which might violate your privacy or compromise your anonymity.  Our service
has always been, and will always be, TOTALLY PRIVATE.  We guarantee your
total anonymity when you write to our service.  NO ONE will ever tap us on
the shoulder and insist that we reveal who our members are or who authored
that last anonymous letter asking for advice.

USNA-Net is the ONLY Navy Parents' Network with a set of written Rules of
Operation by which we have operated from the day of our inception, virtually
without change.  These rules keep us focused on our Mission and free from
distractions, debates or discussions which hinder our ability to help each
other.

USNA-Net is the Original Parents Network.

USNA-Net is THE Definitive Standard by which all other such services are
measured.

Help us to reach ALL of the '08 Parents by making sure that you tell other
parents about our service as you meet them.  Send them to our web site at
www.USNA.org.

Our ONLY way of locating other parents is by word of mouth.  YOU are our
best method of reaching the next class of parents who need USNA-Net as much
as you did when you were a Soon-to-be-Plebe-Parent.  Help us to help other
parents.  Pass along the tradition.

Mike Zets
Westlake, OH
mzets@USNA-Net.org
Moderator - USNA-Net Listservers
SysOp - www.USNA-Net.org

*** USNA-Net post by: "Mike Zets" <mzets@usna-net.org>
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