Brian,
What you describe are all settings in an email list-serv.
I manage multiple lists for my BSA Troop and have set these lists up similarly.
Subscriptions can be moderated or not, meaning if you subscribe, you still
can't post until the list master approves your subscription, or the
subscription can be open, which means that users can post immediately.
Then there is the question of the posting settings:
Moderated - no posting allowed from a non-subscribed account (with or without a
rejection message)
Modified moderated - posting allowed from non-subscribed account but only after
list master approval (with or without a "waiting" message
Open list - postings allowed from any email whether subscribed or not.
If Millennia would just publish the settings for their lists, everyone would
know how they function and would not be frustrated and think things are not
working, when they may be working exactly as set. This may of course warrant
some change in the settings.
Thanks
-hhk
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-----Original Message-----
From: Brian L. Lightfoot [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 10:53 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Re: Email problems
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
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