While Orn has been doing an admirable job managing the email flow, I've been looking into alternative environments and/or some sort of back up system. I'm meeting with a group this week who is launching a groupware/social aggregate to see it demo'ed, and believe it might be a welcome adjunct to replace the forums and article posting I had setup with DubiousProfundity, while providing some redundancy for our group list and functions. I'll let you all know after the demo.
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 11:32 AM, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > No doubt we both favour a Sharia punishment for Monsieur Henry! God > did not treat Senor Maradonna well after lending him a hand. I'm > ashamed to admit I'm only back courtesy of Microsoft Live. I too must > admit an addiction - apparently this can get really sad for some. I > have shied away from believing the powers that be are trying to stop > our communicative action but it is a reality in the sense of the > politicians and media. Chris and I should get together and bottle the > daily dose of sanity provided by yourself, Orn, Molly, Vam, Ian (too > rarely these days), Gabby and others! Perhaps we could call it Mind's > Ayer (the philosophers' high) after Gabby's brilliant phrase, though > no doubt the story would have a cloak and dagger end should she insist > on royalties! > > On 22 Nov, 11:15, fran the man <[email protected]> wrote: > > The whole thing has been very strange, Neil. I set up a yahoo account > > yesterday to try to post here - to no avail. My posts just didn't come > > through, although the interface was informing me that the posting had > > been successful (just like my original account). Registering through a > > German (.de) provider finally worked. A (completely speculative) > > explanation could be that attempts from the google people to deal with > > the spy-problem (which treated us to that spamming wave recently) > > resulted in a change of settings which had the effect of shutting out > > most legitimate posters. This change of settings would seem to > > concentrate on the big .com providers like google and yahoo (possibly > > also gmx and others). It was you logging in with a .co.uk provider > > which gave me the idea of trying a route with a "national" provider. > > But I know nothing about computer code, so it could just as well be > > the Illuminati, MI6, or the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of > > the Faith. > > > > One thing I have learned from this is that I am a Minds Eye junkie! > > With my access blocked, I found myself tooling around aimlessly on the > > net, doing ridiculous things like ardently following a facebook > > campaign to have the Ireland-France game last Wednesday (where France > > qualified for the World Cup in South Africa at Ireland's expense as a > > result of a shameful hand-ball by Thierry Henry!) replayed :-). It's > > good to be back. > > > > Francis > > > > On 22 Nov., 11:43, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > It looks as though trouble I had with my main Google account is > > > coincidental. 'Someone' was joining all kinds of sites and groups > > > using this account. > > > > > On 22 Nov, 10:14, ornamentalmind <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Some of you are regaining access to ME by setting up alternative > email > > > > accounts and then posting. Some have had to use a different provider. > > > > When we recognize old members, we reestablish your non-moderated > > > > status. > > > > > > There still are a few obvious interface issues with Google Groups > that > > > > I am observing. One is that when using the web interface, I do not > see > > > > the screen name of the most recent poster to this topic. I only see > my > > > > screen name from a post I made long ago. Others have posted since. > > > > Another anomaly is that for us moderators, the number of moderated > > > > messages requiring attention does not show up in one of the few > places > > > > it used to be. So, I am having to relearn how to use the system and > > > > keep email traffic current. > > > > > > Thanks again for your patience and don’t give up! > > > > > > Hopefully things will settle down soon. > > > > > > On Nov 22, 1:54 am, fran the man <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > So, let's give it another try. After trying, apparently > > > > > unsuccessfully, with a yahoo account default, I'll have another go > > > > > with a German provider. > > > > > > > Hey mods, it's me, Francis! Please let me in! > > > > > > > Francis > > > > > > > On 21 Nov., 06:22, ornamentalmind <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > If anyone who has been a member long here and is not moderated > doesn't > > > > > > seem to be able to post, please let us know and we can check to > see if > > > > > > there is a simple fix. > > > > > > > > For your information, this issue extends to many Google Groups > and not > > > > > > just our group.- Hide quoted text - > > > > > > > - Show quoted text - > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > ""Minds Eye"" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<minds-eye%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. 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