Notes:

• Registration, activation, and login
It is necessary to register (How?), activate your account (How?), and log in (How?) before you can access most of the forum features.

• Enabling "cookies" for the forum
To experience many of the forum features, it is necessary to allow the forum to set a cookie on your computer. The cookie will not transmit any personal information to us; it is simply used to make some things on the forum more personal for you. For more information, see Enabling Cookies.

• Pop-up blockers
If you have a pop-up blocker on your computer, you may need to disable it or designate www.zcrew.net as site for which pop-ups are allowed in order to log in and/or use some of the features, such as pop-up notifications for Private messages. For more information, see About Pop-up Blockers.

• AOL Users
If you use AOL, you need to log in to the Internet as you normally do and then switch to a different browser before logging in to the forum. AOL and a few other Internet Service Providers change the IP address assigned to you while you are actually online. If you do not switch to a different browser, you will not be able to create and post messages, even when you have logged in successfully.

Forum features include but are not limited to the following:

• Read topics of discussion on various subjects of interest
• Print individual or ranges of specific messages in topics
• Reply to topics of discussion
• Post new topics of discussion
• View the membership list
• View member profiles
• Send and receive Private Messages (PMs)
• Receive e-mail and online notification of Private Messages
• Send and receive e-mail messages directly from the forum
• Change your profile preferences
• View which posts have been added to the forum since your last visit
• View a list of all your posts with links to each one
• See which topics you have already read on the forum (the corresponding links appear lighter)
• Receive e-mail notification when someone has replied to a topic or reply message that you have posted
• Have the system log you in automatically each time you visit the forum

Many of these features can be turned on and off in your user profile. For more information, see Understanding Profile Preferences and Changing Profile Preferences.