I imagine that some of you don't know, or don't remember, what this silliness is about, so here's the short version:
Well over a year ago, AOL and Yahoo changed their policies about how email from their users should be treated by other mail servers, and did it in such a way that mail sent from AOL or Yahoo users to mailing lists ended up getting treated as spam. In order to fix this for the O-list, some major upgrades need to happen to the server on which the O-list resides; trouble is, this server (which I run) has a number of older, other services on it that can't get upgraded easily, and I've been struck trying to find a way to juggle everything appropriately so that I can get the mail upgrades done without interrupting these other services... and this is dragging on for a looooong time. So, in the meantime (but hopefully not for too much longer) any posts from folks who use AOL or Yahoo mail must get forwarded from another account to the list, rather than get posted directly. I usually do this, which is why you see so many from me, and the odd circumstances where I'm replying to my own messages, etc. (Occasionally, of course, we make a mistake and let one through directly - as I did this morning - and then have to resend so everyone actually gets a copy.) Sorry for the difficulty/confusion/oddness... Anne
