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Advertise	The Advertise Forum is an avenue for vendors (suppliers) with relevant products and services targeting the 501G community. Your email address is concealed from fellow subscribers of this forum as long as you passively obersve activity within this forum (in other words, while subscribed you do not post a message). Content produced by suppliers and submitted to the Advertise Forum must pass examination for relevancy by the 501G Steering Committee.	Subscribers to this forum must meet the Required Member Qualifications (Users only). Vendors produce postings for this forum. All content in this forum is exclusively created by vendors who obtain the appropriate clearances in advance. For a message to be posted to this forum, the submittor must NOT be subscribed to the forum. Forum's subscriber email addresses are inaccessible. Moderated forum (all postings are reviewed and evaluated by the moderator prior to appearance in this forum).
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Announce	The Announce Forum provides a platform for declaring upcoming events for the 501G community, On-line surveys, and improvements to the 501G.Users-Groups.com Internet Portal. This forum is not designed as a discusssion forum.	Subscribers to this forum must meet the Required Member Qualifications (Users only). Vendors are not permitted to subscribe to this forum. Exception: a specific person from a Vendor organization may be granted participation if all three of the following conditions are true: Vendor possesses a valid O&M contract, or the person from the Vendor organization exhibits exceptional knowledge and professionalism within the 501G community. duly executed Confidentiality Agreement. The 501G Steering Committee grants permission. If the exception is met by a Vendor, then the person from the Vendor organization is denied access to the Member Profile roster. For a message to be posted to this forum, the submittor must be subscribed to the forum. Forum's subscriber email addresses are inaccessible. Moderated forum (all postings are reviewed and evaluated by the moderator prior to appearance in this forum).
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Discussion	The Discussion Forum enables discourse of plant design, engineering, and operations. This forum focuses on knowledge sharing.	Subscribers to this forum must meet the Required Member Qualifications (Users only). Vendors are not permitted to subscribe to this forum. Exception: a specific person from a Vendor organization may be granted participation if all three of the following conditions are true: Vendor possesses a valid O&M contract, or the person from the Vendor organization exhibits exceptional knowledge and professionalism within the 501G community. duly executed Confidentiality Agreement. The 501G Steering Committee grants permission. If the exception is met by a Vendor, then the person from the Vendor organization is denied access to the Member Profile roster. For a message to be posted to this forum, the submittor must be subscribed to the forum. Forum's subscriber email addresses are accessible to forum participants. Violation of charter may result in temporary or permanent expulsion from the forum.
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Emergency	The Emergency Forum drives high priority and critical nature discourse about plant operation. For example, subjects for this forum include: return the plant to operational status from an unplanned outage. prevent an unplanned outage from occuring when it is imminent. solicit other plants for difficult to obtain equipment in a pinch.	Subscribers to this forum must meet the Required Member Qualifications (Users only). Vendors are not permitted to subscribe to this forum. Exception: a specific person from a Vendor organization may be granted participation if all three of the following conditions are true: Vendor possesses a valid O&M contract, or the person from the Vendor organization exhibits exceptional knowledge and professionalism within the 501G community. duly executed Confidentiality Agreement. The 501G Steering Committee grants permission. If the exception is met by a Vendor, then the person from the Vendor organization is denied access to the Member Profile roster. For a message to be posted to this forum, the submittor must be subscribed to the forum. Forum's subscriber email addresses are accessible to forum participants. Violation of charter may result in temporary or permanent expulsion from the forum.
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Employment	The Employment Forum opens the door to employment advertisements related to 501G facilities. This forum's configuration prohitits the exposure of email addreesses for those that are passive observers (those not posting a message). The advertisements may be for posting help wanted, employment advertisements, project postings, job wanted, and resumes. You should not reply to the forum unless you desire everyone in the forum to know what you write; moreover, directly responding to the original poster is the primary method to communicate with that person.	Subscription approval required (see Required Member Qualifications). For a message to be posted to this forum, the submittor may be subscribed to the forum. Forum's subscriber email addresses are inaccessible. Moderated forum (all postings are reviewed and evaluated by the moderator prior to appearance in this forum). Once a position has been filled, the original poster must transmit a message indicating that the position has been filled. Once a person has located gainful employment, that person must transmit a message indicating that he or she is no longer seeking a position.
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Index	The Index Forum compiles the previous month's activity for the entire site. This email based index includes: Section 1: Publication Postings    each index entry is comprised of: Subject: line of submitted email message URL (a.k.a. link) to the archived email message which includes the document Section 2: Display Advertisement    each index entry is comprised of: Subject: line briefly describing the advertiser URL (a.k.a. link) to the Advertise Forum archive Section 3: First Message of All the New Threads of Conversations of the User Only Forums, including: Announce Discussion Emergency SurplusParts Vendors    each index entry is comprised of: Subject: line of submitted email message URL (a.k.a. link) to the forum archive's initial message of the Thread of Conversation	Subscribers to this forum must meet the Required Member Qualifications (Users only). Vendors are not permitted to subscribe to this forum. Exception: a specific person from a Vendor organization may be granted participation if all three of the following conditions are true: Vendor possesses a valid O&M contract, or the person from the Vendor organization exhibits exceptional knowledge and professionalism within the 501G community. duly executed Confidentiality Agreement. The 501G Steering Committee grants permission. If the exception is met by a Vendor, then the person from the Vendor organization is denied access to the Member Profile roster. This forum's messages compile automatically, and it is submitted from the Hostmaster. Forum's subscriber email addresses are accessible to forum participants.
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Publications	The Publications Forum supports posting an organization's White Paper(s), Newsletter(s), and other publications of interest to 501G participants. Content produced by users and vendors (suppliers) then submitted to the Publications Forum must pass examination for relevancy by the 501G Steering Committee.	Subscribers to this forum must meet the Required Member Qualifications (Users only). Whitepapers or Newsletters produced by a vendor may be submitted by that vendor, the vendor must obtain the appropriate clearances in advance. For a message to be posted to this forum, the submittor may be subscribed to the forum. Forum's subscriber email addresses are inaccessible. Moderated forum (all postings are reviewed and evaluated by the moderator prior to appearance in this forum).
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SteeringCommittee	The SteeringCommittee Forum is a private, restricted access exchange for 501G Steering Committee members. Steering Committee members utilize this forum to formulate strategy and actions of and for the 501G Users Group. This forum is open to 501G Steering Committee members, only.	Subscribers to this forum must meet the Required Member Qualifications (Users only). Vendors are not permitted to subscribe to this forum. Exception: a specific person from a Vendor organization may be granted participation if all three of the following conditions are true: Vendor possesses a valid O&M contract, or the person from the Vendor organization exhibits exceptional knowledge and professionalism within the 501G community. duly executed Confidentiality Agreement. The 501G Steering Committee grants permission. If the exception is met by a Vendor, then the person from the Vendor organization is denied access to the Member Profile roster. For a message to be posted to this forum, the submittor must be subscribed to the forum, a 501G Users Group member in good standing, or a person with relevant information for the 501G Steering Committee. Forum's subscriber email addresses are accessible to forum participants. Violation of charter may result in temporary or permanent expulsion from the forum.
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SurplusParts	The 501G SurplusParts Forum exchange enables a member to dispose of asset(s) by notifying the entire membership of new or used parts. The equipment for sale must be directly applicable to the operation of a 501G plant. The organization submitting the post must not operate in a "distributor", "OEM", nor "dealer" capacity; in other words, the parts are a once-off sale for equipment owned by the submitter originally intended for use by the submitter for operating the plant, yet the plant no longer requires the asset(s). Members may also use this forum to solicit other members for needed parts. Messages posted to the SurplusParts Forum will be evaluated by the forum moderator prior to distribution to the membership.	Subscribers to this forum must meet the Required Member Qualifications (Users only). Vendors are not permitted to subscribe to this forum. Exception: a specific person from a Vendor organization may be granted participation if all three of the following conditions are true: Vendor possesses a valid O&M contract, or the person from the Vendor organization exhibits exceptional knowledge and professionalism within the 501G community. duly executed Confidentiality Agreement. The 501G Steering Committee grants permission. If the exception is met by a Vendor, then the person from the Vendor organization is denied access to the Member Profile roster. For a message to be posted to this forum, the submittor must be subscribed to the forum. Forum's subscriber email addresses are accessible to forum participants. Moderated forum (all postings are reviewed and evaluated by the moderator prior to appearance in this forum). Violation of charter may result in temporary or permanent expulsion from the forum.
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Vendors	The Vendors Forum enables you to: compliment complain comment regarding supplier relationships. The Vendors Forum illuminates the 501G community's satisfaction level with vendors. Candid positive and negative criticism about vendors amongst the membership benefits the entire 501G community.	Subscribers to this forum must meet the Required Member Qualifications (Users only). Vendors are not permitted to subscribe to this forum. Exception: a specific person from a Vendor organization may be granted participation if all three of the following conditions are true: Vendor possesses a valid O&M contract, or the person from the Vendor organization exhibits exceptional knowledge and professionalism within the 501G community. duly executed Confidentiality Agreement. The 501G Steering Committee grants permission. If the exception is met by a Vendor, then the person from the Vendor organization is denied access to the Member Profile roster. For a message to be posted to this forum, the submittor must be subscribed to the forum. Forum's subscriber email addresses are accessible to forum participants. Violation of charter may result in temporary or permanent expulsion from the forum.
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