The STEAM-LIST is intended for discussion of steam generators, piping and
equipment. Boilers, boiler feed pumps, water treatment, corrosion and scaling,
valves, PRV's, traps, turbines, flow metering, heating coils, condensate pumps,
district heating, system modeling, that sort of stuff. There are no charges
associated with being a subscriber...it's all free.
As of November, 2005, the STEAM-LIST has more than 240 subscribers.
R a i l r o a d . L o c o m o t i v e s . are not generally covered by this list.
To join, send the command
subscribe steam-list YourFirstName YourLastName
to the e-mail address
Listproc@Lists.cc.utexas.edu
When you receive your automated "Welcome to the List" message, it will include a lot of information about your password. You can disregard that part, since we don't use passwords on this list.
To switch yourself between "ack" (normal, the most popular mode) mode and "digest" (one
email every day) mode, send the appropriate message
SET steam-list mail ack
SET steam-list mail digest
to the e-mail address
Listproc@Lists.cc.utexas.edu
To learn how to search the archives, click here.
To Un-Subscribe, send the command "unsub steam-list" (without the quotes) to the special e-mail address shown above.
The Steam-List has a 100% effective anti-spam feature, but it sometimes causes problems for the members. That feature is: If the list management software receives a message from somebody whose email address it doesn't recognize, it rejects the message and sends them an email saying that only list members can post to the list. This prevents (essentially) all junk mail from ever reaching the list, but it also means that a member whose email address has changed cannot post to the list. The problem is that sometimes a person's employer changes their email address for outgoing messages but arranges so they continue receiving incoming mail sent to their old address (for awhile). The person may not even know that their outgoing address has changed. They may continue to receive messages from the Steam-List that were sent to their old address, but one day when they decide to post a message they get one of the "never heard of you" automatic replies. If this happens to you, please let me know your old and new addresses and I will unsubscribe one and subscribe the other.
The list management software also automatically unsubscribes anyone if email sent to their address bounces back undeliverable. If you Internet service provider goes down briefly while the list is sending you a message you will probably be unsubscribed without any warning...it has happened even to me. If you think this might have happened, just try to subscribe yourself as explained at the top of this page...if you are not a subscriber the software will add you, and if you are a subscriber it will tell you so and not double-subscribe you.
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