I think we should all be forgiving for an accidental "hijacking" of a thread. We've probably all been guilty of that at one time in the past or will be in the future. No harm. No foul.
But the big question remains as to the OP's problem with posting. Note that he said he was prohibited from posting yet posted a message to that effect. Strange. It doesn't work yet it does. And I am curious about the error message he got, something akin to "You are not allowed to post messages on the LUG...". I'm not sure exactly how it works but if you send an email to the LUG from a non-authorized email account (one different than the one you registered with), does the LUG list server even bother with sending you a reply back telling you that you are not allowed to post. Or is it more probable that the LUG list server just ignores the un-authorized message. So if it just ignores the unauthorized message, how do you explain the error message the OP was getting. That's where I suspected some sort of user access problem on his local computer. At any rate, Sherry pointed out that since many of us have multiple email accounts, that we should be sure to post using only the email account that we registered with for the LUG. This little error probably explains over 90% of the messages that we have seen from new users claiming that they are not seeing any messages in that messages are being sent to a different email account that they are not checking. I've complained before that Millennia has not been open with us about the remaining 10% of the problems. I've asked for a simple explanation such as "Yes, we found a routing issue with the server config", or "Yes, we fixed a problem with certain IPs being blocked" or anything to that effect. I don't think anybody would mind as long as we were just told about it but as a group formed whose mission is to help other users, we get left in the dark and never hear about any problem resolution. Brian in CA Feeling like a mushroom -----Original Message----- From: Mike Fry [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 1:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Re: Email problems On 2010/03/11 07:57, Jennifer Crockett wrote: > In defence of Bob, I experienced the exactly the same sort of > problems when I tried to subscribe a couple of months ago. Eventually > after doing nothing but tearing my hair out, some sort of glitch > resolved itself and I was able to post. I think it is unfair and > unkind to blame Bob for what appear to me to be problems which seem > to originate at Millennia's end. That's all well and dandy, but what Sherry was politely trying to point out was the following:- a) The subject header had not been changed but the content was entirely unrelated, ergo, the existing thread was being 'hijacked' b) Bob replied to an existing message, when he should have started a new thread because he had a gripe that was unrelated to the subject of the message he was replying to. He should learn the difference between the verbs to 'reply' and to 'write'. Subtle differences. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
