contributors lost in xmca-land

Eva Ekeblad (eva.ekeblad who-is-at ped.gu.se)
Thu, 4 Jun 1998 07:33:53 +0200 (METDST)

At 14.04 -0700 98-06-03, Mike Cole wrote:
>Joe Glick tells me that while he can read XMCA, this note which he wanted t=
o
>post disappeared into the great byte bucket in the semiosphere.

Mike

and everybody lost in Cyberspace

The problems people are having when they can read xmca but are unable to
post happen because the procmail server does NOT allow postings from
accounts it does not have on the xmca masterlist. This is a good thing in
these days of spam and Internet commercialism.

It is, of course NOT a good thing when it stops subscribed people from posti=
ng.

Now the case often is that the address that people have in their "From:"
field is NOT EXACTLY the same as the one they are subscribed under -- while
things at their home domain are arranged so that they can receive mail on
these different aliases in the same mailbox. So they don't notice until
they try to post.

In Joe's case he sent from
jglick who-is-at email.gc.cuny.edu
but he is subscribed as
jglick who-is-at broadway.gc.cuny.edu
in the masterlist I asked Lou for in order to count the silent ones.

This has happened to many people lately -- Joe is the fourth I hear about,
so I conjecture there are others out there.

The thing to do is probably to write to xfamily who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu and ask Lou
et. al. for help.That's REAL people, NOT a server. I am not sure if
unsubscribing and resubscribing does the trick: you might end up subscribed
twice.

Eva