From: Moderator of alt.autos.chevelle Newsgroups: alt.autos.chevelle Approved: moderate@chevelles.net Subject: FAQ alt.autos.chevelle March 11, 2001 Reply-To: alt.autos.chevelle Message-ID: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 118 X-Trace: /wsd9iUhwv/eQGJP0DNftywQ83aKHEQM3pkPk2ch1KSaXCFk0umBU5zmHtNhbs751arxij6Sb3Nb!c2CqzD4Q8xWomTF97FSy8baxuo6BHMXw2JwGjzp8xsiNFmE8AtWSGvDaekQSO/3+WtlVInsMxnAV!VoF/vWUXE8mPnITcVgM= X-Complaints-To: abuse@gte.net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 13:28:40 GMT Distribution: world Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 13:28:41 GMT Path: news1.ip-mobilphone.net ! news2.ip-mobilphone.net ! news.planetc.com ! newsfeed2.skycache.com ! newsfeed.skycache.com ! Cidera ! cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com ! paloalto-snh1.gtei.net ! news.gtei.net ! dfiatx1-snr1.gtei.net .POSTED ! not-for-mail Xref: news2.ip-mobilphone.net alt.autos.chevelle:26 This newsgroup is dedicated solely to the preservation of accurate historical information concerning the Chevrolet Chevelle. It is carefully moderated to that end. The Chevrolet Chevelle automobile was built by General Motors from model years 1964 through 1977. "Power Years" Chevelles are those built from 1964 through 1972. The continuing interest in this marque and its siblings, the El Camino, GMC Sprint and Canadian Beaumont, is sustained by its emphasis on high performance and sleek design. Postings to this newsgroup are welcome in areas of Chevelle historical lore and engine, transmission, body, interior, chassis and electrical issues. The newsgroup will aid in the definition of identification numbers of Chevelle parts, paint codes, casting numbers, trim tags and Protect-O-Plates. This newsgroup consolidates existing discussion which is scattered among related newsgroups and is a sibling site to related websites and mailgroups (infra). Until now Chevelle postings were lost among the unrelated postings at rec.autos.rod-n-custom and rec.autos.firebird-camaro. Moderation is done by hand by Chevelle historians. Moderation will exclude spam, excessive cross-postings, postings which are off-topic, postings which are calculated to emit more heat than light, postings which suggest unsafe or historically invalid modifications to Chevelles and postings which are otherwise historically inaccurate. Postings to alt.autos.chevelle are usually modified by the Moderator. Headers are heavily stylized to increase the probability that Deja News will find them during searches. Spelling is corrected to make postings more readable and to make the search engines more responsive. Chevelle lovers will also enjoy Al McKenzie's superb web site "chevelles.com"; it receives thousands of visits per day. Its sibling, "chevelles.net", is a centralized Internet server housing eleven nonprofit regional US and Canadian Chevelle clubs. Team Chevelle's excellent Chevelle mailing list at the front page of www.chevelles.com has several hundred members and has produced thousands of digests. Postings which are not appropriate for alt.autos.chevelle may be welcome on the two aforementioned Internet resources or on other automobile newsgroups. Chevelle trivia is posted daily at Tom Wilson's Chevelle Trivia (c) at www.chevellehistory.com or on the front page of Team Chevelle, www.chevelles.com. The information provided there is documented from General Motors and Chevrolet Division primary reference sources. A question from Chevelle Power Years history and lore is presented on a daily basis. The Legal Community being what it is, please post comments which reflect only positive experiences, and you may name names. If, in response to a prior post, you have something bad to say about a particular product or service, however, please email the comment privately, or in your post refer to the offending product or service with a single asterisk. Multiple asterisks lead to folks counting asterisks and trying to figure out a name matching that number. This way the good get praised, the bad get criticized and nobody gets sued. Sadly, such is the price we pay for our litigious society. Pictures of Chevelles are properly posted to this newsgroup as well as "alt.binaries.pictures.autos" and "alt.autos.pictures" newsgroups. Readers are encouraged to check those newsgroups every day; binary files are often deleted every day or so by some news servers because of the storage problems inherent in large binary files. A section has been created to verify suggested Chevelle reference book errors. There have been suggestions of reference book inaccuracies through the years. Sometimes, however, after I have researched the question, I have found that there is no documentation to prove that the statement was inaccurate. When I have verified errors, my book reviews at Team Chevelle have brought those mistakes to the reader's attention. On the other hand, I believe that there are enough suggestions of mistakes to warrant the creation of a section at alt.autos.chevelle. In fairness to the authors of the criticized reference books, and my not wanting to create further rumors and myths by allegations that are themselves false, we will adopt the following procedure. If you have the feeling that something is inaccurate, post the suggested mistake to the news group. Once the mistake is verified via the use of appropriate documentation, we will place the notice into the Chevelle Archive at Team Chevelle and post it here at alt.autos.chevelle. Please submit your suggested errors to alt.autos.chevelle, only one alleged mistake per posted note. You may post as many suspected errors to the news group as you wish, but only one per posted article. This will make it easier for the Deja News and Team Chevelle search engines to find the discussions. Archiving of alt.autos.chevelle is through DejaNews at www.deja.com. All postings which the moderator posts to the alt.autos.chevelle newsgroup are necessarily archived forever, or at least as long as DejaNews exists. DejaNews does not archive binary files; therefore, pictures posted to our news group will not be archived. In searching DejaNews it is important to use their Power Search function and search the Complete Archive, not just the Standard Archive. 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