This page last updated: 20 December 2008
1. Who we are
The BOMRT is an
international Internet forum devoted to an enduring remembrance of the great battle
and of the men who fought it.
2. How we operate
The BOMRT publishes The Roundtable Forum
at approximately one-week intervals. Members e-mail their comments or
inquiries to the editor who compiles them into newsletter format, then posts it
on our web site. Registered members
also receive a weekly e-mail message with additional information exclusively
for them. For more on how we operate,
be sure to review our FAQs page.
3. What are the
costs and obligations?
Every aspect of the
BOMRT is voluntary, non-commercial, and without cost. Everyone is free
to join or withdraw as desired. There is no advertising, and we don't
share your e-mail address with anyone outside the Roundtable. The only obligation is that members will
carry on their contacts with each other in an atmosphere of mutual
respect. Included in that standard is a
commitment to safeguard any member’s personal information that may be obtained
as a result of membership on the Roundtable.
4. Who should
join?
Any person of any age
or gender, in any location throughout the world who has an interest in the
Battle of Midway for any reason will find the Roundtable to be a valued
resource. In particular, the fact that we have many actual veterans of
the battle on our roster makes the BOMRT unique among historical discussion
groups. You'll get a sustained, first-person perspective on the battle
from those veterans that cannot be obtained anywhere else.
5. How do I join?
To join, compose and
send an e-mail message as explained below. Your message must originate
from the e-mail address at which you wish to receive mail from the
Roundtable. Use the following format for your message:
Required items:
·
Subject line:
"Joining the Roundtable"
·
Body of message,
Line 1: your full true name.
·
Body of message, Line
2: your city and state (or city and nation if outside the U.S.)
Optional items:
·
Line 3: a
secondary e-mail address (strongly recommended—this can be
important if we have any problems with your preferred address. Such
problems are very frequent on the Roundtable. See also note below.)
·
Line 4:
if you are currently serving in the military, your present rank/rate and military
service.
·
Line 5: if
you are a military retiree, your rank/rate and military service in retirement.
·
Line 6:
any other information you’d care to share, such as what inspires your interest
in the Battle of Midway.
Note that the only
required items are your full true name and your location. Your e-mail address for receiving messages
from the Roundtable will be copied from the header of your message.
6. Important note regarding your e-mail address
If you send a
membership application and never get a reply, the problem may be that you are
using an e-mail service than employs “sender verification.” Any message
sent to you from a new source is blocked unless the sender initially carries
out a manual registration process with your ISP. We don’t do that on the
Roundtable—your address must be usable to our members without the necessity of
special procedures.
In the case of e-mail
services that employ “sender verification,” one option might be to register our
e-mail address in advance as an authorized correspondent. Our address is midway.rt@gmail.com. If that’s not possible, then you’ll need to supply
a different address in order to participate with us.
Note that if you have
not provided an alternate e-mail address per Line 3 above, it will be
impossible to communicate with you if any problem is encountered with your
preferred address.
7. To compose and send your membership application: click here.
After
sending your application, please review our FAQs
if you haven’t yet done so.