Dear Lacemakers, Thanks to the members of Arachne who wrote privately about how to access the New Mexico article. It is extremely important for our international group to become acquainted with what is going on lace-wise in the American Southwest, which is why I became upset when the article was not in my in-box nor in the archives I accessed. The explanation of feuding AOL/Yahoo/etc. from Amanda must be considered seriously by all of us. Most have been under the impression we are receiving all memos sent to Arachne from around the world. Clearly, not true. This feuding may explain the days when no Arachne mail is received. Is anyone presently working on this problem? If not, now is the time to set up an Arachne technology-knowledgeable team to wrestle with all our problems. It may require some funding to make it possible to preserve what has been written in the past 20-plus years, and updated programming that will result in all letters to Arachne going to each member. A lot of lace expertise is shared in our archive files (some from deceased members). It needs to be saved. How do we do this? Will someone take on the responsibility of saving and sharing a distillation of replies to this appeal? I am working over-time on a huge lace-related project that will benefit many lace researchers, so must take myself out of the picture. For a start, we need a committed computer technology volunteer team with specific skills and experience, plus someone to be the leader's right hand. (Two, similar to Scotland's Jean and David Leader team - no pun intended.) Do you know someone who qualifies and is willing? This may be a way that younger members will become well-known to many of us. This will be an accomplishment to add (hopefully) to a professional resume. Our computer technology team will need to interface with the generous owner of Arachne's old server, so it stays up and running until tests of all things new are absolutely working well and backed-up. This team will also need to interface with our most-precious volunteer, Avital, the expert who signs up new members and manages any problems of inappropriate mail. Amanda's easy-to-understand comments are below. We all need to be aware of what she has explained, and all need to support efforts to solve these problems - for everyone. Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center -------------------------------------------------------- In a message dated 3/13/2016 10:57:25 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, la...@quandary.org writes: That is almost certainly because the original email about lace in New Mexico was sent from a yahoo.com account, and you are reading from an aol.com account. Yahoo.com broke their users' ability to use mailing lists in 2014 when they changed their DMARC configuration, announcing to all other mail servers in the world that no yahoo.com email was allowed to come from a non-yahoo.com server, not even via a mailing list server. Recipients whose providers pay attention to this announcement, like Gmail and AOL, can then no longer see emails that yahoo.com users send to mailing lists.
Incidentally, AOL did the same thing! Many mailing list users can likely no longer see your own messages, Jeri, for the same reason. Sadly, the arachne list runs on old software that apparently can not work around this issue. Common workarounds basically obscure the origin of yahoo.com and gmail.com emails so that all mailing list recipients will still see them, but there is no update for our mailing list to do this. Amanda Furrow Philly, Pennsylvania, US - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
