Last Updated: 2/20/01
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Maintainers:	Tom Cullen (cullen@enteract.com) Jason Hatter (towonder@concentric.net)
Past Maintainers:	Andrew Hackard (ahackard@UVic.CA) Craig Sefton (craig@tradepage.co.za)
Original maintainer:	Bobby Nichols (catdrag@vnet.net)

Thanks goes out to the entire FRML for keeping the Realms alive!

Special thanks to Bobby Nichols, who wrote the first iteration of this FAQ, and to the following list members (in no particular order) for their contributions: Ami-Ben Ezra, Toby Mekelburg, Craig Sefton, Jason Hatter, Jeffrey David Bray, Nick Meredith, Bobby Nichols, Niels Handest, Martin Brabander, Kain "CullA" Whitehouse, Ken Sexe, Simon Gibbs, xman, Timothy Scott Maddalena, Jay Fisher, Stephen Campey u, Paul Hoyak, David Cordy, Jenn "Kethry" Millington, "Cyric", Mike Mateer, Larry Hepker, Thomas Costa, Thomas Cullen, Steve Allen, Eric Boyd, Steven Schend, Tavis King, Andrew Phelps, Elaine Cunningham, Mark Oliva, DM Celtic, Trent Raley, Bryon Wischstadt, Tom Rinschler, Thor, Lord Emm, George Krashos, Renshai, Ed Greenwood, John Scott, Robert Thomson, John Harbord, Jay A. Johnson, Chris Garner, J.R. Farley, Jim Butler, David W. Lemburg, Rian McMurtry. Apologies are due to those whose contributions were included but who were omitted from this listing.

Super-special thanks to AJ Asbury (aja@taverntales.com) and Jason Redfern (webmaster@candlekeep.com) for hosting the FAQ on their web sites

Super-extra special thanks to Mark Oliva for a thorough and conscientious review of this version.

This FAQ may be found on the following web pages:
   http://www.candlekeep.com/fr_faq.htm
   http://www.taverntales.com/Realms-L/realms-l_faq.htm
   http://www.masterao.com/frfaq/

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As a general rule of thumb, do the following if you aren't receiving mail from the list:

1) Check the following web page:
http://network54.com/Hide/Forum/26390 for any known "official" (ie, known to the monitorial staff) problems with the list. If there is no information about a list outage, proceed to 2.

2) Ping the server oracle.wizards.com. This will tell you whether theserver is active or not. To do this, open a Dos window (for Win95/98 users), type the command: ping oracle.wizard.com, and wait for the result.

In any case, do NOT repeatedly ping the server, nor send repeated "Hey, is anyone there?!" messages; they do nothing but place more of a strain on an already overloaded server.

3) If the ping results in "timed out" responses, yes, the list is down. If not, then send a message to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM with the command "thanks" (without the quotes) in the body. If you don't get a prompt response, the server is down.
-- Jason Hatter
Realms-L Moderator
towonder@concentric.net