Let's focus on some specifics. Pick a couple of the sites which seem the worst [Washington Post/BBC?] and email the url/locations of the pages where you enter your email address [as I'll admit to being too daft to know which they might be].
I assume the address is the insightbb.com one [unsure where Rob is getting the 'list' from]. Also supply the actual output you get on failing. Sounds like Washington is a website error while the BBC sends the error in an email? Looking at the source to the Washington site, they do a lot of cookie manipulation. Could you have disabled cookies at some point in the past? [Preferences->Security->Cookie buttons]. I could see how not being able to do cookies would confuse the hell out of the washington form. All I can think of, Hen On Sun, 23 May 2004, Marta Edie wrote: > Well, Rob and Hen, this is my progress: I have been trying a number of > websites ( all newspapers) and in the Pref. in Safari I had unchecked > the button where it says under auto-fill using info from my address > book. I was going to uncheck all of them,each one at a time. Now the > Wash. Post's filler-upper still told me (javascript ) the e-mail addr. > was invalid, but then came another webpage telling me I am subscribed > with this same e-mail. So I closed up, opened up and it worked, shows > up in my keychain now, also. BBC news as such have always been ok, but > getting special e-mails went like this : invalid e-mail address, but > with it came an e-mail to that same address in my mail ( > simultaneously) telling me to finish up the third step, namely clicking > on the given url to really signe me up, wich I did and then things > went ok. So i am still a little dizzy from these new possibilities, > after I get through with all this, I shall then have to unsubscribe to > all of these e-mail news I have subscribed to, just to figure this > out. Ih ave come to believe there is a failure between this Java > pulldown menu and its Safari connection. Sometimes now I also get a > message that I cannot access a website, while the website appears > anyhow. Another angle , though connected as i see it. > Marta > On May 23, 2004, at 14:14, Robert Kersting wrote: > > > I don't mean to jump away from the philosophical discussion, but your > > email problem might be as simple as having the word "list" in your > > address. > > > > It could be the webmaster has filtered the word "list" to be sure the > > user is a human being and not a listbot. > > > > Just a thought. > > > > rob > > > > Marta Edie wrote: > >> Now Kay, the first thing I learned about computers is that they cannot > > > > <snip> > > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > > | be May 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be May 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be May 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
