The Omega List at Eskimo.com

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Posting articles

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Subscription requests

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Rejected mail

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Commercial Messages

Please do not use this list to sell your phenomenal trading system. If you have a product that helps solve a specific problem posed by a list member, you may mention it in that context, but you must be brief and specific. If in doubt, send your potential post to the list's maintainer, jimo@eskimo.com, to see if it's appropriate.

Digest Archive

The most recent fifteen digests are available, as a single mail folder, via ftp (Ed: file transfer protocol) from: <ftp://ftp.eskimo.com/u/j/jimo/> in the file: digests. A list of the digest numbers in the digests file is in the file: dindex.

Etiquette

This list is for the discussion of issues important to professional traders, people who earn their living trading in the financial markets. It was started as a forum for the ad hoc support of users, by users, of Omega Research Corporation's TradeStation software. Later, users of SuperCharts and System Writer Plus joined the fray. Please note, though, that Omega Research has no official connection with the list, and neither approves nor sponsors the content. Occasionally a member of the Omega team may listen in, and perhaps contribute, but not in any official capacity.

Although the list was started with an Omega support function in mind, list members frequently discuss other, non-Omega related trading topics. Any subject is welcome, as long as it is pertains directly to serious trading.

Please respect the time and intelligence of the list's readers -- people who may know more than many of us, and who don't have time for political discussions or personal attacks. The quality of answers we all receive to our questions depends on our not driving away these knowledgeable readers with noise.

Please be careful quoting messages in your replies. Many mailers automatically quote mail with a line like "...you wrote:" which is obviously not correct when your reply is directed to the list as a whole. Try to quote just enough of the original message to establish a context, remembering that your reader may not have seen the message you're replying to yet. But please don't include more of a quoted article than necessary. Because the archive space is limited, long quotations will be removed from archived articles in their entirety.

Special note for AOL users:

The AOL system is known to have problems handling MIME multipart digests, like the ones this list sends if you subscribe to the digest version of the list. You will probably be happier with the non-digest version, and if you ask AOL to please make it a priority to fix their software to become MIME compliant, perhaps someday they will.

Special note for Microsoft Exchange users:

You will want to be sure to turn OFF the "Rich-Text Format" for all messages sent to this list, as they add a large encoded-binary attachment that no one but other MS Exchange users will appreciate. Here's how, in case you don't know:

On the Properties for "omega-list@eskimo.com" in your address book, CLEAR the Checkbox labeled: "Always send to this recipient in Microsoft Exchange rich-text format"

Unfortunately, MS Exchange is not reliable when replying to messages, so for replies, you must pull up the Properties configuration FOR EVERY SINGLE REPLY, and uncheck the RTF box.

Special note for WorldNet.att users:

Be sure to configure your mailer so that your return address does not contain the "postoffice" subdomain when you post articles to the list. Otherwise the server will not recognize your address and your article will be rejected as not being from a subscriber.

Special note for Pegasus for Windows Users:

Be sure to turn OFF the confirmation receipt that Pegasus generates by default to all mail messages. You will want to be very sure that these receipts don't get sent to all the list subscribers every time you read your mail from the omega-list.

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