"DEAR VETERAN SPARROWS"
THIS POST IS ONLY FOR THE SPARROWS,
WE WELCOME ALL RETIRED AND SERVING SIGNAL OFFICERS AND THE FAMILY PENSIONERS TO BE PART OF OUR MAILING LIST THE “SIGNALS PARIVAR@GOOGLEGROUPS.COM”.
(WE CONTINUE APPROACHING THE VETERANS WHO HAVE YET TO HAVE THEIR MAIL IDs INCLUDED IN OUR MAILING LIST)NOTE THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED - Please open page -- https://signals-parivaar.blogspot.com/2021/06/signals-parivaar.html
RETIRED PHASE OF LIFE. After serving the Armed Forces for decades every one has to embark upon the newer phase of his/her life called "Retirement". It could be harrowing time for some while the same it mat turn out into enjoyment with all the time to oneself do do whatever one likes. It is natural to feel bit lonely and cut-off after retirement, as one is out of usual communications with old colleagues. In addition many issues which we never had to bother while in service crop up, Pension Entitlements and its arrears, Income Tax, Investments, ECHS, CSD etc etc issues begin to surface with surprise.
SIGNALS-FAMILY MAILING GROUP (EARSTWHILE) In the digital era these difficulties can be obviated to certain extent by creating lasting bonds among the Veterans Fraternity. We therefore, initiated the creation of our own "Signals Family Mailing Group" ten years ago primarily to e-unite --(CONTD)
our veteran course-mates and friends. Our sphere expanded progressively beyond expectations and we extended the facility to all Signals Veterans who wished to be on the mailing list of the SIGNALS-PARIVAAR (sigs-parivaar@yahoogroups.com SINCE CLOSED AND TRANSFERRED TO GOOGLE). We are proud that almost all the Past SO in Cs and Lt Gens of our Corps are part of our mailing list on Googlegroups, we thank them for their kind gesture.
We will request the present Colonel Commandant in-charge of ESM welfare to be on our mailing list, as earlier, so that he remains updated on ESM issues which appear frequently on our mails.
our veteran course-mates and friends. Our sphere expanded progressively beyond expectations and we extended the facility to all Signals Veterans who wished to be on the mailing list of the SIGNALS-PARIVAAR (sigs-parivaar@yahoogroups.com SINCE CLOSED AND TRANSFERRED TO GOOGLE). We are proud that almost all the Past SO in Cs and Lt Gens of our Corps are part of our mailing list on Googlegroups, we thank them for their kind gesture.
We will request the present Colonel Commandant in-charge of ESM welfare to be on our mailing list, as earlier, so that he remains updated on ESM issues which appear frequently on our mails.
As of today we are over 1680 registered Email IDs on our list in the group which is purely a SIGNALS Own & Exclusive Mailing Group of officers incl retired women officers. We are happy that many single ladies have chosen to join the mailing list. Ours is the largest mailing group of the Armed Forces Veterans on Record. The mails so posted by the members are fully e-vetted as such "No FALTOO Mails" are allowed to pass on to the recipients. For the past over 10 years there have been no spam mails or outside intrusion into our group.
OUR AIM . The soul aim of the group is to interact among ourselves on issues which directly concern us in our day to day life. We provide updates on new posts and guidelines issues on our web site http://signals-parivaar.blogspot.in incl Corps Domestic News. This aim is being achieved fully and we are a happier lot. The salient features of the Mailing Group are placed at the end of this post.
WEB SITE THE SIGNALS-PARIVAAR As the time passed we also created our own website http://signals-parivaar.blogspot.in to store the information for posterity. We noticed that our website soon became popular in a short span of time. It is in the public domain open to any one. It opens without any log ins or passwords. We welcome any Armed Forces Veteran to our site and tend to post the facts and figures for their information as well after due verification. As of date we have had over 14,00,000 hits from 90 countries world wide .
This is the only service related site which covers virtually all aspects related to Veterans with NO Hidden Agenda. As of today it is the information Store House for the Armed Forces Personnel helping vetreans and family pensioners in managing the related issues with guidelines placed on various posts in the web site. We have over 4000 pages worth of material to incl articles and pamphlets on 10 Gb of data on this portal. If we call this as "Veterans Exclusive Reference Site" we will not be Wrong.
For the convenience of our visitors an Index is available with a click on all posts in the site which can be selected and opened from the Index. We have also linked all other similar websites but donot compete with any one else.
We have gone a step further by including articles of assorted subjects some contributed by friends and some collected from other sources for leisure reading linked in this site.
This site can be read in any Indian or foreign language by your mouse click, do try this facility.
This is the only service related site which covers virtually all aspects related to Veterans with NO Hidden Agenda. As of today it is the information Store House for the Armed Forces Personnel helping vetreans and family pensioners in managing the related issues with guidelines placed on various posts in the web site. We have over 4000 pages worth of material to incl articles and pamphlets on 10 Gb of data on this portal. If we call this as "Veterans Exclusive Reference Site" we will not be Wrong.
For the convenience of our visitors an Index is available with a click on all posts in the site which can be selected and opened from the Index. We have also linked all other similar websites but donot compete with any one else.
We have gone a step further by including articles of assorted subjects some contributed by friends and some collected from other sources for leisure reading linked in this site.
This site can be read in any Indian or foreign language by your mouse click, do try this facility.
SALIENT FEATURES OF THE MAILING GROUP.
MEMEBERSHIP As of now the Signals-Family Group has over 1680 signallers whose mail IDs are listed and grouped under the single Group Mail ID i.e signals-parivar@googlegroups.com . Any retired or serving Signals Officer can join the mailing list to receive general information and updates through regular E-mails. We have already opened the membership to our SINGLE LADIES ie Family Pensioners. It easy to be part of the group. Please express your desire over an email addressed to mgr.sigs@gmail.com giving your RANK & Full Name, E-Mail ID, Mob No, place of Residence & the last unit from where retired.
POSTING POLICY Any registered member can post his mail to the group using single mail ID signals-parivar@googlemails.com which will be auto routed to all the 1680 members. We exchange only useful information directly affecting the Veterans, but take due precautions NOT to permit Chain Mails, Forwards, Jokes, Second Hand and stale Mails which are not authored by the sender himself. We also do not entertain controversial topics and views on Religion, Governance and Politics. These are taboos for us.
ONLY RELEVANT MAILS PERMITTED Unwanted mails are annoying, imagine in case only 5% of the members post just one mail a day, you will have 85 mails in your mail box. We have accordingly introduced Auto Filters in the portal which scan all mails posted for certain key works and addresses. The mails so filtered out are automatically rejected as explained below in this post. (NO FALTOO MAILS ON THE GROUP)
GOOGLED SITE - OUR group home page and the blog site is searchable in google and Yahoo searches. Do try to check for your self on your mobile phone.
SPECIAL FEATURES Some of its important features which are useful to know are listed as under:-
(a). Member’s mail IDs are grouped under signals-parivar@googlegroups.com , as such any mail sent by any of the registered mail ID addressed to this group ID goes to every one in the group subject to its meeting the terms & conditions of the policy for posting of mails. (ANY ONE to ALL Mail Facility)
(b). All registered members can post messages to the group as such no outsider can ever post any messages or join the group without our approval. (NO INTRUDERS or SPAMS).
(c) The mails once sent carry the sender’s mail IDs in the FROM field so displayed there in the mails received by the members. Once a member wishes to reply to the received mail he/she would click the REPLY button, writes the reply and SENDs it goes only to the sender and not to the group even if addressed so. (PRIVACY OF INTERACTION). Sending replies to the Group Mail ID will thus be a futile effort and avoided.
(d). It is purely upto the individual members to be a part of this group as long as they wish to, they can opt out and unsubscribe by sending a simple mail so illustrated at the bottom of all mails . (You are always in control)
POSTING POLICY Any registered member can post his mail to the group using single mail ID signals-parivar@googlemails.com which will be auto routed to all the 1680 members. We exchange only useful information directly affecting the Veterans, but take due precautions NOT to permit Chain Mails, Forwards, Jokes, Second Hand and stale Mails which are not authored by the sender himself. We also do not entertain controversial topics and views on Religion, Governance and Politics. These are taboos for us.
ONLY RELEVANT MAILS PERMITTED Unwanted mails are annoying, imagine in case only 5% of the members post just one mail a day, you will have 85 mails in your mail box. We have accordingly introduced Auto Filters in the portal which scan all mails posted for certain key works and addresses. The mails so filtered out are automatically rejected as explained below in this post. (NO FALTOO MAILS ON THE GROUP)
SPECIAL FEATURES Some of its important features which are useful to know are listed as under:-
(a). Member’s mail IDs are grouped under signals-parivar@googlegroups.com , as such any mail sent by any of the registered mail ID addressed to this group ID goes to every one in the group subject to its meeting the terms & conditions of the policy for posting of mails. (ANY ONE to ALL Mail Facility)
(b). All registered members can post messages to the group as such no outsider can ever post any messages or join the group without our approval. (NO INTRUDERS or SPAMS).
(c) The mails once sent carry the sender’s mail IDs in the FROM field so displayed there in the mails received by the members. Once a member wishes to reply to the received mail he/she would click the REPLY button, writes the reply and SENDs it goes only to the sender and not to the group even if addressed so. (PRIVACY OF INTERACTION). Sending replies to the Group Mail ID will thus be a futile effort and avoided.
(d). It is purely upto the individual members to be a part of this group as long as they wish to, they can opt out and unsubscribe by sending a simple mail so illustrated at the bottom of all mails . (You are always in control)
(e). Members can have individual choice either to receive each mails from the group or to receive just one mail during the day giving a Digest of all mails where only text without any graphics is received. (YOUR PERSONAL CHOICE IN RECIEVING CONTENTS in your Inbox)
(f) The most attractive feature is that any member and not necessarily the manager or the coordinator, is able to post the messages of importance and share with all other signallers in the group. All this simply by sending one simple mail addressed TO the goup mail ID. Mails so exchanged on the group portal are stored on the home page of the group site for reference if needed at a later stage by any of the registered members. You can also send attachments with your mails of various formats such as Govt letters etc. (ENSURING YOUR MAIL IS NOT REJECTED)
FINALLY WE URGE MEMBERS NOT TO SEND MAILS WHICH ARE FORWARDS, CHAIN MAILS, JOKES, OFFENSIVE AND CONTROVERSIAL MAILS ETC TO THE GROUP MAIL ID, “PLEASE AND KINDLY DO NOT POST SUCH AND YOUR REPLIES MAILS TO THE GROUP ID” . You will agree that most of us also get chain mails etc from other sources as such donot wish to get repeats.
THE THUMB RULE IS THAT IN CASE YOU ARE NOT THE ORIGINAL AUTHOR OF THE CONTENTS OF THE MAIL
By being part of the group we hereby do undertake and promise to be considerate to the others Veterans and adhere to the terms set out as above for posting our mails to our own Group .
By being part of the group we hereby do undertake and promise to be considerate to the others Veterans and adhere to the terms set out as above for posting our mails to our own Group .
When we initiated this ;mailing group and opened for the all the Signals Veterans we did not introduce and checks or moderation of the mails. It soon resulted into a deluge of mails being sent by members. Many left the group not being able to live with such flood of mails out of which a large percentage were of no interest to them. In order to maintain the sanctity of the group we had to introduce technical solutions much against our liking to filter out the unwarranted mails. As of date as mentioned above in this post only relevant mails which adhere to the policy pass through the filters for further transmission to all the 1700 members.
It is once again brought to the notice of all members that they should not feel offended once they receive notification from Google.com about the auto-rejection of their mails. The same only reminds the senders that their message originated by them did not conform to the policy. The filtered out messages do not come up for managerial review and get expired in 14 days time with intimation to the sender by the Yahoo Portal. In most cases we have noticed that they were multi-addressed in addition to the Group.
We will surely appreciate should you share some information like Events, Sickness or Passing away of Member, looking for a old friend or seeking any help from the group members at an outstation or seeking some information of larger interest, you are most welcome to post the messages to the group from your registered mail ID.
However you must please ensure that your message is addressed ONLY to the Group mail ID in the TO field and none else in addition. There should be no addressee in the CC and BCC address fileds. It means that it should just be a single and pure message with copies to none.
One of the e-filters also looks for particular words in the text to auto-send the mail to trash. That is why we are not receiving any faltoo mails in our in-boxes on the mentioned topics. 100s of mails thus get trashed every day to the dislike of senders who would receive an automated intimation after 14 days from Google Portals on trashing of their messages to remind them of the policy.
We also understand that there could be emergencies as such have also made special exceptions for transmission of messages on priority. In case any member feels that his/her message must go immediately to the group and is considered important such as informing about the demise of a member or requirement of blood or Organ for another Veteran or the same is meant for every one’s information. In such a situation please compose your message as per norms mentioned above and post/send to the group ID without any CC or BCC with single address in TO field.
In addition to the above please FORWARD the SENT COPY of your message from your sent mails to mgr.sigs@gmail.com with your request to check on the message and have the same transmitted on priority.
Well that is the policy being followed which may not be to MEMBER'S liking but that's what we have adopted with OK from Majority of the members. Its all in your own hands to have your message pass through the E-Filters.
We have thus ensured by strictly adhering to this policy that the mail boxes of our members which includes all our Senior Officers as well, are not cluttered by unwarranted and Faltoo mails.
It is once again brought to the notice of all members that they should not feel offended once they receive notification from Google.com about the auto-rejection of their mails. The same only reminds the senders that their message originated by them did not conform to the policy. The filtered out messages do not come up for managerial review and get expired in 14 days time with intimation to the sender by the Yahoo Portal. In most cases we have noticed that they were multi-addressed in addition to the Group.
We will surely appreciate should you share some information like Events, Sickness or Passing away of Member, looking for a old friend or seeking any help from the group members at an outstation or seeking some information of larger interest, you are most welcome to post the messages to the group from your registered mail ID.
However you must please ensure that your message is addressed ONLY to the Group mail ID in the TO field and none else in addition. There should be no addressee in the CC and BCC address fileds. It means that it should just be a single and pure message with copies to none.
One of the e-filters also looks for particular words in the text to auto-send the mail to trash. That is why we are not receiving any faltoo mails in our in-boxes on the mentioned topics. 100s of mails thus get trashed every day to the dislike of senders who would receive an automated intimation after 14 days from Google Portals on trashing of their messages to remind them of the policy.
We also understand that there could be emergencies as such have also made special exceptions for transmission of messages on priority. In case any member feels that his/her message must go immediately to the group and is considered important such as informing about the demise of a member or requirement of blood or Organ for another Veteran or the same is meant for every one’s information. In such a situation please compose your message as per norms mentioned above and post/send to the group ID without any CC or BCC with single address in TO field.
In addition to the above please FORWARD the SENT COPY of your message from your sent mails to mgr.sigs@gmail.com with your request to check on the message and have the same transmitted on priority.
Please note that the manager or the owner of the Group will not relay or re-post your messages to the Group even if requested by you under any circumstances. Please donot ask us to pass your mail to the group on your behalf. Its always better that any thing posted by you must go under your name
Once you reply to the group mail received by you they can only go to the sender
except the manager's mail ID. Replies sent to group mails or to manager's mail ID also get trashed as
such he will not get your replies unless a mail is specially made afresh and sent
to our mail ID. THEREFORE, PLEASE AVOID SUCH REPLIES it’s a waste of effort.
Well that is the policy being followed which may not be to MEMBER'S liking but that's what we have adopted with OK from Majority of the members. Its all in your own hands to have your message pass through the E-Filters.
We have thus ensured by strictly adhering to this policy that the mail boxes of our members which includes all our Senior Officers as well, are not cluttered by unwarranted and Faltoo mails.
JOINING THE GROUP MAIL LIST
If you are a signals officer serving or retired or a Family Pensioner of a Signals Veteran and wish to join the Parivaar Mails please send a joining request e-mail to mgr.sigs@gmail.com giving your (1) Rank and Name, (2) functional Email ID, (3,4)Contact details such as mobile as well as Land Line phone , (5) Place Residing, (6) the last unit .
We simply maintain the member's data base but do not pass on your details incl your mail ID or phone number to any one without your permission.
“ALL RIGHTS ARE RESERVED”
ब्रिगेडियर नरेन्द्र ढंड (वेटेरन)
Brigadier Narinder Dhand (Veteran)
NOIDA -(NCR) – 201303
NOIDA -(NCR) – 201303
Group Mail ID "sigspvr@googlegroups.com
RECENT E MAILS SENT ON PORTAL
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ReplyDeleteSir, I am Ex L/Nk A. Kathiravan, of signals, now working as superintendent of customs in custom house, tuticorin. i wish to join in our mail group. kindly consider my request. i will follow all the conditions for joining in the group.
ReplyDelete(1) Rank and Name: Ex L/Nk A. Kathiravan, Army No 14296297F
(2) functional Email ID: kathiravan.ex@gmail.com
(3,4)Contact details such as mobile as well as Land Line phone: 09488009954 & 08825574477
(5) postal address: House No 21, SRIGURUNIWAS, Rajiv Nagar East, Balakrishnapuram, Dindigul-624005, Tamilnadu
(6) the last unit serving or retired : 1 Corps Air Sp Sig Unit
(7) the date of retirement : 31.08.1992.
kindly consider my request.
thanks.
L Naik P K Shivajee 14218618F, Signals, retired in July 1988.
ReplyDeleteLast Unit served was 6 TTR, 2 STC, PONDA (Goa)
Re-emp in the O/o the Customs Trichy as Telecom Associate, superannuated in 2014.
My mail Id is shivjeepk@gmail.com my contact No.09442817307.04268251847
Shall be pleased to join the family of signals.
With best wishes.