William Overington wrote: > As it happens I often read the Unicode list from the web at > the publicly > accessible yahoo groups web site that is mentioned on the > Unicode website > under mail lists. Recently I saw an item there, about > surrogates, to which > I chose to reply, yet found that the original posting had not > appeared in my > email feed from the Unicode site. Having recently seen the item about > Fraktur Ligatures in the listing on the web site, I have > decided that I > would like to reply to that posting, yet find that that too > has not appeared > in my email feed from the Unicode site. So, although I have wondered > whether it is my email feed, I am now wondering whether some > people have > actually joined the web based yahoo group and posted to it, > without their > post ever going through the Unicode site, with the effect > that their posting > is only being seen by those people who read the Unicode list > on the web. > The relevant posts are numbers 12518 and 12555 in the yahoo > groups list. > > Is it the case that there are some people who are posting to > the yahoo echo > of the Unicode list and maybe wondering why they get no > response, when the > truth is that perhaps none of the main participants of the > Unicode list ever > look at the yahoo echo? > > Here is the chance for a recruitment drive to the Unicode > list! People who > are reading this list on the web might like to know that if > one goes to > http://www.unicode.org one can find out how to join the mail > list so that > one can then post directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and have > the post emailed > to everybody on the list. As the yahoo echo suppresses part of email > addresses, the address is what one gets from human processing > the following > into an email address format. > > unicode at unicode dot org > > However, it is no use posting there unless one has registered > as posts from > non-registered sources are not emailed out on the list. > However, joining is > free, one sends a request to a specified email address, which > is a different > email address to the one used to send a posting out to the list. > > Hopefully the Unicode list manager might like to look into > this matter and > comment please. An item that would be helpful to be > published is details as > to how someone can register and never receive email postings > yet can still > post to the Unicode list: this would be very useful for > someone who likes to > read the Unicode list from the yahoo groups website and have > the facility to > post whenever he or she chooses, yet would have a problem if > lots of emails > were to start to arrive at his or her email address. > > William Overington > > 21 May 2002
One line resume for busy people: "A guy posted on <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> rather than on <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, so no one saw his message." _ Marco
