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Last Updated: June 30th, 2007
This is to help reduce and combat crawlers and spambots from harvesting the email addresses on this site and flooding your inbox. These addresses are all aliases so they only forward email to the actual recipient's address, rather than being an actual account. To email someone, simply remove the "-remove-this-" part of the email, which should then look like user@nrst.org.
That is correct. The emails from the "nrst.org" domain are all forwarding addresses only, so they simply bounce email to you. There is no additional email account or address to setup.
Primarily, to stop spam from becoming a problem. If you notice that you are getting spam from your "nrst.org" forwarding address, contact alumni@nrst.org and I will create a new forwarding email, setup a spam filter and put additional counter-measures to stop the spam bots from running amuck. As a secondary benefit, in the event that you do not want to be contacted by another alumni or visitor to this site, the nrst.org forward hides your true email from prying eyes.
For various reasons, we are not asking alumni to send in their phone numbers. Phone numbers tend to change often, while emails generally do not. If you DO wish to have your phone number published, let us know (alumni@nrst.org) and we will add it into the "Extras" field on your listing.
In the rare event that email is not the best form of communication, we will accept your phone number or mailing address if you wish it - which will then be published or made available when requested by another alumni.
Most definitely. Note that a number of alumni on this site were found via Google and other search engines, so the information we found may or may not be very accurate. In addition, though all the information we found was publicly available, that person may or may not be surprised by being contacted by another alumnus. So, you way wish to begin your message by telling the other person that you found them through the nrst.org site.
In the event that we have found the wrong email, mistyped someone's email or that person simply isn't at that address anymore, let us know (alumni@nrst.org) and we will look into the matter and try to locate that person again if necessary.
It's possible that some of the email addresses we have are out of date or no longer checked by that individual. It's also possible that person is on vacation, changed identities, in antarctica (hi Eric!) or various other things. There is also the possibility that they do not wish to be contacted. We cannot help much in this department unfortunately if this is the case.
If you have contact information regarding another alumni, we would definitely appreciate it. Email us at (alumni@nrst.org) and we will update our pages with the updated information. Thanks.
Considering that the admins running this site have substantial white-hat and black-hat means of retrieving information, we would highly advise against this. The admins also have large unmarked bats and drive Suburbans with enough cargo space to hold a bag and two shovels. We highly advise not using nrst.org to mess with anyone.
The site admins take no responsibility for your actions. However, we and Chuck Norris wish you luck.
No, we are not. This site is here for NRST / Merlo Station / SST alumni to facilitate that process, but we will not actually be in charge of planning reunions for every class. We will be putting a message board on here soon to help facilitate that process, but encourage you to take on the task yourself. Be sure to let us know however, if you are planning a reunion and we will post it on the main page and try to help locate other alumni from your class.
Previously, we recommended Beth Deal as a possible contact point, but as she is no longer with NRST / STT, we would advise you to get in touch with the current SST administration. If you can enlist the help of other alumni, that would also be highly recommended, as different individuals have different networks of classmates they still keep in contact with.
You may also wish to try Classmates.com, as they have a somewhat large list of registered Merlo Station / SST alumni.
NRST stands for Natural Resource and Science Technology. It was the official name of the program from 1995 to 2001 I believe. In the old days, the program was called the CIM program, or Certificate of Initial Mastery program. During those days, Merlo classes were held in parking lots, the cafeteria had no roof and people rode of carriages. We also walked 6 miles to school and hauled milk on the way home. And we liked it, damnit.
School of Science and Technology, the official name of the program post 2001. At 31 characters, "School of Science and Technology" is probably one of the longest names to write. Right after, you guessed it, "Natural Resources and Science Technology", coming in at 41 characters. So after walking 6 miles to school with 50 pound bags, we also wrote our absurdly long school name until our hands were raw and bleeding and filled out scantrons in blood. And we liked it too, damnit.
People do change over time and often that you'll find that someone you might not have liked in school isn't that same person anymore. Perhaps they've changed. Or perhaps you've changed. In other words, people do mature and grow up over the years, so you would might be surprised. That's why they have these fickle 10 year reunion things, after all. In the most humble opinion of those running NRST.org as well, we would like to think that in 10 years, past grudges have been forgotten, forgiven or simply fallen by the wayside.
Contact us at alumni@nrst.org and we will take down any or all information that you wish to remove, no questions asked.
You were the one that killed insects with a welding torch as a kid, weren't you?
Seriously though, Grant is a busy guy and tends to get sidetracked on projects easily. Updates tend to come in slow (but steady) to the site as a result, but things do get done. When Grant gets seriously bored, maybe then he will write a dynamo site with more extras, but right now it seems to do the job it was intended to do.
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