On 17 June 2016 at 19:24, Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 11:22:02AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Richard Melville wrote: >> > Bruce, there is a definite issue at your end with my messages not >> > appearing in the archives, even though I can see my replies at my end. >> > It may be the same issue that I had before where I have one gmail >> > account which ends in either .gmail or .googlemail respectively. >> > Although, before, my LFS .gmail messages were actually bouncing. It's >> > a hangover in the UK from when .gmail could not be used for some >> > copyright reason, until Google waived its chequebook at the other >> > party. >> > >> > I'm just testing this with the original .googlemail extension to see >> > if it rectifies the problem. If not, I'll test again with a .gmail >> > extension. >> > >> > BTW, it's the same across all your mailing lists. >> >> I don't know what you are talking about. I see two messages from you today >> in the archives and Hazel's too. >> >> Of course your email address has to be registered. Otherwise we get too >> much spam. >> >> -- Bruce >> > There seems to be something strange going on - I'm subscribed via my > isp (virginmedia) and I didn't get any of Richard's or Hazel's posts > on this subject. This morning I got a message to say my membership > on lfs-support had been disabled due to excessive list bounces. > I've just looked at the archive to see what I had missed, and the > only thing that I noticed was those posts from Richard and Hazel. > > I know that virgin's current mail provider is a bit tighter on spam > because I regularly get test messages from freebsd-questions after > messages are (rightly) rejected as spam. > > At the moment I'm also frequently getting unsubscribed from lkml - > monday last week, and yesterday. > > My guess is that all the big companies are implementing different, > and excessive/incompatible attempts to block spam - without much > overall success.
Thanks Ken -- Bruce resolved my issue. Apparently I will have to register the email address twice, once with the .googlemail extension and again with the .gmail. I'm not sure if Hazel's issue is the same. Your problem does sound like spam blocking as you suggest. Richard -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
