Here's hoping that REBOL-Services can reach the parts that AltME and 
IOS can't; especially people without always-on internet connections.

Regards

Peter

On Wednesday, Aug 25, 2004, at 05:43 Asia/Kuala_Lumpur, Carl Sassenrath 
wrote:

>
> Let me explain a bit...
>
> Running an email-based list is more difficult than it has been in the 
> past.
> The problem is mainly spam pollution of the list's control and message
> channels, but there were also some security issues in the past.
>
> To fix these problems, we've had to make a lot of adjustments to the 
> list,
> including changing its address, mail rejection methods, failure 
> processing
> parameters, as well as changing its subscribe and unsubscribe methods 
> to
> require confirmation.
>
> In addition, spam filters may in some cases accidentally consider 
> replies
> from email lists as spam itself. So, that's worth considering.
>
> As I've said before, I think the days of email are numbered. Although 
> we'll
> try to keep this list server up as long as possible... most of the 
> REBOL
> discussion traffic has already moved to AltME worlds or IOS servers. 
> Once
> we have REBOL-Services on-line, I think we'll have an even better 
> solution
> to the problem.
>
> Best regards,
>
> -Carl Sassenrath
> REBOL Technologies
>
>
> At 12:12 PM 8/24/2004, you wrote:
>
>> Hallvard:
>>
>>> Who else is in this situation? Why do I receive nothing? Is this a 
>>> known
>>>   problem? Help!
>>
>> The ML went through some strange ups and downs recently.
>>
>> Possibly you got unsubscribed during the transfer and then tried to 
>> follow
>> the inaccurate resubscribe instructions.
>>
>> I *think* this page is now accurate about subscribing:
>>     http://www.rebol.com/discussion.html
>>
>> Sunanda.
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