Hello Seekers and Finders. :-) I thought I would take the opportunity to explain to you what the "<ADM FWD>" tag was that you see in some of the subject lines. Our SeeknFind mailing list is an unmoderated list. Most of our posts get immediately distributed and posters would realize that immediate distribution. In some circumstances a post may be bounced to me for review. Some of the causes of these bounces are set in the Majordomo software and others are by my own configuration of our list. In those circumstances where your post would bounce to me, it is usually going to mean an extra delay in distributing the post until I can forward it back to the list. When I do forward those bounced posts back to the list, I often manually edit the Subject line with the "<ADM FWD>" tag. Let me go over a few reasons your post might bounce to me: (1) Our Majordomo has Administrivia filters to catch unsubscription and other server commands from being mistakenly posted to our list. These type of posts tend to waste everyone's time, so it is a good thing that we have something to trap those administrivia posts before the rest of the list is burdened with them. While this is a valued feature, it also has it's downside -- sometimes posts get bounced as administrivia when in fact, they are not. Anytime we post about subscribing or unsubscribing to lists or getting "help", the post may be subject to getting bounced to me for review. (2) A Majordomo requires you to post to the list with *exactly* the address to which you are subscribed to the list. If there are any differences at all in the address you are using to post to the list and the address you are subscribed, then your post will bounce to me for review. Example: If you are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... you cannot post with the address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... even though your own mail server sees those two addresses as the same. The Majordomo will not. I can configure our mailing list to "munge" domains, where some of the types of addresses I exampled above, will get through. However, experience tells me not to do that, so I won't. If you want to set up more than one address with which you can post to the list, but only get distribution for one account, you can subscribe with additional accounts and then set those extra accounts to NOMAIL. A possible use for doing this -- suppose you have your main subscription to the list with your ISP e-mail account and a secondary subscription set to nomail using a Hotmail account. If your mail server goes down for an evening or longer, but you have web access, you could post to the list from your Hotmail account and later look for the answer in The Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/seeknfind%40esosoft.com/ (3) I have a few things configured into our list which I am on guard for, which will cause your post to bounce to me for review. These things are few and far between, though. Most of the bounces I speak of would be related to either Administrivia or Non-member posting. This message is only to inform you. You need not feel guilty or at fault if any post of yours is inadvertently bounced to me. I have a pretty good system for getting your post forwarded back to the list where it will be distributed, so it is not a great burden on my part. Right now, our membership is small. Only about 1/2 the subscribers came over from the ONElist group. Interestingly, though, our daily average output is about the same, for which I am extrememly pleased! :-) I am currently promoting our Seeknfind list and we add subscribers almost every day. You can help by just inviting one new subscriber. If we all do that, we will double in size in no time at all. :-) Thank you. :-) Alan S. Harrell Owner/Administrator SeeknFind [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
