Dear Selma, It might have been more productive if you were on the volunteer admin team, as perhaps then you wouldn't have got tired of repeating your explanations endlessly, in public or private.
The situation as it stands is such: [1] Gmail will generally often not *send back* to you your own post to a mailing list. You will get it if you're on the digest (as part of the digest) but not if you get individual posts. This is due to the Gmail settings. There's nothing we can do about it. If any poster wants to make sure their message has been circulated, the best thing to be done is to go online and check the Goanet archives. [http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/] [2] Some email services might send Goanet posts into your spam folders. Unless you correct the situation, we can't change things. A few users complain that they are persistently not receiving Goanet mail. We struggle to unsubscribe-resubscribe (sometimes repeatedly) the subscriber in question. In an extreme case, we suggest that the person take up an additional free email account, and use the same only for accessing Goanet. Whatever makes you assume that we have not written "to Albert privately and explain this to him"? On another point, I have long argued that Goanet is created by its posters. Not just posters, even our silent and unnoticed readers who show up at our annual meetings (and whose existance is often doubted by those Thomases who want to believe Goanet doesn't have the reach it claims) have contributed significantly to its success. I don't know if you read what I write before commenting on it, but this is what one had said earlier: "As Goanet touches 18 this year, I think everyone who posts or reads this network has reason to be proud of what it achieved." http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2012-January/217116.html As for your "creme de la creme" argument, yes, the past always looks better and a happier place. Which is why we talk about those good old days. I'm sure Dempo college in the early 1980s was a grand place... and my own golden memories go back to the Goa of the 1970s. Yet, I can anticipate my children's generation thinking of 2012 in, say 2032, and looking back in amazement as to what a great place it was *then*! It all depends on what we make of it, I guess. FN > Dear Frederick, > Sometimes I think it must be a lonely job being a man. Men seem completely > oblivious to emotional pain. Instead of addressing Albert's issues, and the > pain he is feeling, you are returning with a LOL. > > Now I happen to know that Albert's issue is genuine. At least two other > people have written to me saying they do not receive goanet mail. One person > has written saying he receives everyone elses' posts but never sees his own > posts and feels victimised. Some people are under the mistaken impression > that I am part of the Goanet admin team. > > Now I also happen to know that none of this has anything to do with goanet > nor its moderators. The reason I know this is because many years ago, the > same thing happened to me. For some reason my service provider decided that > there was no need for me to receive goanet mail. Then all of a sudden, I > received about a month's worth of mail in the mailbox. > > It has something to do with yahoo and hotmail as service providers. Perhaps > you should write to Albert privately and explain this to him. > > Lastly might I add to the exhaustive list you put out a few days ago in > thanking all those connected with Goanet, that the most important ingredient > of goanet, is its posters. Without posters, goanet ceases to exist. When I > joined, goanet was the place to be. It had the creme de la creme of posters. > Today, it has lost much of that intellectual vibrancy. Some posters have > sadly passed away. Some are estranged from goanet. Yet others are busy with > their hectic lives. > > It behooves us all to be genuinely kind to each other if we are to retain > this community of Goans. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
