Champions List

The Champions Listserv is for those whose primary focus is Show Fancier - Exhibitor for the American Cocker Spaniel, active or retired. We're here to share experiences and support those with the same focus as our own through open discussions. To date, our list of members not only live coast to coast in the U.S., but we have members in Canada, Brazil, South Africa, Australia, England and other countries. Our hope is to one day have members from many different countries, sharing this wealth of information among ourselves. This membership includes new fanciers and exhibitors all the way to retired fanciers as well as fancier/Judges.

To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the Champions Archives. (The current archive is only available to the list members.)

To post a message to all the list members, send email to champions@cockers.com .

In order to change your membership option (Digest, No Mail, Password, etc), you must first log in by giving your email address and membership password. If you don't remember your membership password, you can have it emailed to you by clicking on the Remind button on that page: http://www.cockers.com/mailman/options/champions_cockers.com

To contact the List Administrator, you can email

The List eligibility is as follows:

1. Main focus _must_ be *cocker spaniels* and *conformation*.
2. Must be at least 18 years old.
3. Must have shown in conformation for at least *one* year.
4. Must have a sponsor from the List.
5. Must provide a History of their time in dogs, provided to me through email.

This goes out to the membership when you are added to the List. Things such ashow long, your kennel prefix (how and why you decided on it), where you live, etc. are all important information to include in your History.

6. Must send the US $5 membership fee to me at the address below.

List Guidelines

This Listserv is for those of us whose Primary focus is Show Fancier/Exhibitor for the American Cocker Spaniel. We're here to share experiences and support those with the same focus as our own through open discussion. The opinions of the membership are not necessarily those of the owner/moderators of the list and we are not to be held liable for any misinformation that is quoted on this list. The List Owner reserves the right to terminate membership at any time without prior notice and without giving any reason, including any associated materials such as (and not limited to) material supplied to the Photo Gallery on Cockers.com. The Stud/Bitch Gallery has been added to provide an online Gallery of our cockers for the Champions List members. At this time, the Gallery is provided only for the membership. All posts are copyrighted by the author and one must get permission to pass this on, either in writing or verbal, prior to doing so. The Membership List is owned by the List Owner and cannot be reproduced for anyone else or for any other purpose, unless permission is first obtained from the List Owner. This includes published listserv addresses and names of listserv members.

This list is not for personal conflicts with another member; do thaton your own time. As the List grew, we have decided that thereshould be a few rules which we need to adhere to in order toprevent the loss of unlimited usage. If not, eventually we might haveto limit the number of messages sent out over the listserv. Pleaseread carefully! File them for future reference. Be considerate, evenif it means taking a little more of _your_ time.

#1. To "Post" to the list, please use the address (Champions@cockers.com). Your message will then go out to each and every member onthe list.

#2. To "Reply" to an individuals' message, please use the membershiplist provided. This "reply" method is for response between individualsor simple one liners, "Congrats!" or "Me Too". Anything that is pertinentto the entire group, by all means use the listserv address. Rememberto _delete_ a portion of the previous message that you are replying to!Use only a statement or two to refresh our memories.

#3. To "Forward" something over the listserv, please "delete" the excessinfo. We don't need to know who all received it before us. Especiallythose who get the "Digest", have to scroll down quite a lot already.

#4. Should a "heated" discussion arise between individual list members,one private warning addressed to each individual, should stop thediscussion over the Listserv. A second warning will be the "final" warning.Any future incidence will be an automatic removal from the List. Thisis not to imply that we cannot have different views on any given subject,but we need to be respectful and tolerant of those who have differentviews than our own. This Listserv is made up of individual opinions.Use the individual membership list provided to carry forward anyheated discussion.

#5. Tuesdays are "For Sale" days where items may be listed for sale on this day only.

#6. Attachments cannot be sent over the list as this puts too much of a strain on the server. This includes photos or attachments of ANY kind. In lieu of attachments, we have made another page on the Cockers.com web site where you may upload your own photos in the Gallery.

#7. Do not "post" a private email over the list without permission fromthe author of that private "post". In recapping a topic, please do notuse the names and addresses of the original writers when includingtheir posts.

#8. No naming of names (dogs or people), unless it is about youor your dog. Keep the topic in the abstract.

#9. Inappropriate language is not acceptable over the List.Any post can be written without explicit language.

#10. From now on, you will be doing your own changing of your ownsubscription. For this, you will need your password. It should besent to you on a monthly basis, but if you need it, here is what youdo to get it.

Password reminder

1. Go to http://www.cockers.com/mailman/listinfo/champions_cockers.com Scroll to the bottom of the page:

2. Then at the bottom of the page, enter your email address in the section Champions Subscribers, in the box next to "Unsubscribe or edit options" and click on the button

3. Then click on "Remind" in the Password Reminder section.

It will then be sent to you at your email address in just a few minutes.

When changing your subscription after you are in the Edit Options, scroll downward to the gray box area. If you have been on "digest"and want to go back to regular "mail", click on "off" selection of Set DigestMode and it will put you back to regular mail.

If you're going out of town to a dog show or vacation, go to this sameplace and click on the "on" selection of Set Digest Mode.

Any private emails to me () should be addressed to: or and should notcome out over the List. Please remember this, as the List is notfor private conversations.


San Jo Cockers

212 Timberline Rd.
Statesboro, Georgia 30461
(912-764-7604)