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By establishing rowhistory.net the River & Rowing Museum aims to bring rowing experts round the world together, promote research in rowing history, enhance the museum’s international archive and information, and make the museum’s collections accessible.

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To make a posting simply click ‘reply’, type in your contribution and then press ‘submit’. Your posting should appear in the list of postings.

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You can subscribe and unsubscribe to discussion subjects by changing your membership options.

Please note that you must be connected to the Internet at the time you submit your posting.

rowhistory.net is a closed discussion forum. This means that membership is only open to those people invited to do so by the River & Rowing Museum.

People wishing to join the forum should email michael.rowe@rrm.net

Only members can make postings to the forum.

The rowhistory.net forum is intended for members only. However, it is impossible to guarantee privacy with this type of forum and it is possible that others will be able to view the site, but not to make postings to it.

Information, images and postings contained within the forum may be published and used by the River & Rowing Museum.

Information, images and postings contained within the forum may be published and used by the River & Rowing Museum.

In applying to the forum you indicated that you wished to contribute to discussions on a number of identified subjects. When you log in to the site (using the User Name and Password provided in your confirmation email) these discussions will be presented to you at the top of the page

By clicking on the title of an individual discussion you will be able to see a list of all the postings made within that discussion. This includes postings made by yourself as well as all other members.

When you log in to the forum a pink envelope symbol appears next to any discussions which have received postings since the time you last logged in.

You can arrange the individual postings by member, date, thread etc.

When you log in to the forum the discussions you can see at the top of the page are the ones to which you have subscribed.

Following this there are a number of discussions within the ‘rowhistory.net admin’ section. These contain information about the forum, its purpose, an occasional newsletter and notices posted by rowhistory.net moderator or by River & Rowing Museum staff.

Following the ‘rowhistory.net admin’ section you will see a number of other discussions. These are the discussion on subjects in which you did not indicate an interest when you joined the forum. You can view these discussion but not make postings to them. You can subscribe and unsubscribe to discussion subjects by changing your membership options.

Each posting is identified by the person who made it. By clicking on the User Name next to the posting you can access information about the relevant member.

You can amend your membership detail and preference at any time by following the profile. Please remember that this information is available for viewing by all other members of the forum.

To terminate your membership of the forum please email michael.rowe@rrm.net with the following subject line ‘Membership Termination Request – (Your User Name)’

To attach an image to a post, click on the Attach file to post link, which is underneath the message box where you make your post

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You will be emailed directly on an occasional basis by rowhistory.net moderator. This will usually only be to provide you with a copy of the occasional rowhistory.net newsletter. You may also be contacted should your use of the forum lapse or should you use the site inappropriately.

Neither the River & Rowing Museum nor rowhistory.net will release any of your personal details to any 3rd party. However, you should remember that the information you provide about yourself will be available to other members of the forum.