Mailing lists, postings, membership and rejects

Noone seems to read this, and I am reiterating it here for people to
note:

  http://bitpim.org/testhelp/contacts.htm

Firstly you have to subscribe to a mailing list to post to it.  This
prevents spam and virus attacks getting to the list, as well as ensuring
you are able to see responses.  You only have to subscribe to the list, 
you don't have to have a SourceForge id or anything else like that.

When you post, your From address must match the address that you subscribed
with.  The mailing list software has no other way of telling that you
are the same person.

You must be subscribed at the time of posting.  Any messages sent before
subscribing or with unrecognised senders are placed in a queue for the lists 
administrator (me).  Every few days I go in and reject ALL of them (I am not 
going to check each message to see if the sender subsequently subscribed, 
work out what is spam, if the message got resent after subscribing etc).

If you would just like to read the lists as well as see the history then
I recommend the interfaces at Gmane:

  http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mobile.bitpim.user
  http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mobile.bitpim.devel

It provides several different views, including RSS feeds.  I don't believe
posting will work from Gmane (it mucks around with the From headers etc
and doesn't sit will with the mailing list software at SourceForge).

And lastly I would like to remind people that emailing individual developers
directly definitely won't help and in general the messages will just be 
ingored.  Messages in the mailing lists are a lot more valuable since the
question and answers can be seen and posted by more people, and the messages 
end up in the archives helping anyone who comes along later.  

You are also reminded of the page in the online help which tells you
what information to gather and how to report issues and questions.
Choose Help > Support within BitPim or read this page:

   http://bitpim.org/testhelp/support.htm

Roger


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