Re: : Please subscribe to the new GTALUG Talks List

David Collier-Brown <[email protected]> Wed, 01 Oct 2014 08:28:08 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.tolug
Message-ID <[email protected]>
You definitely have!  --dave

On 09/30/2014 08:17 PM, Paul King wrote:
> Content-type: Multipart/Related; boundary="Message-Boundary-863"
>
> --Message-Boundary-863
> I have clicked on the confirmation email as of this evening and received a
> second confirmation, and I do believe that I have joined.
>
> Paul King
>
> On 30 Sep 2014 at 13:32, Christopher Browne wrote:
>
> Date sent:	Tue, 30 Sep 2014 13:32:49 -0400
> Subject:	Re: [TLUG]: Please subscribe to the new GTALUG Talks List
> From:	Christopher Browne <[email protected]>
> To:	TLUG Mailing List <[email protected]>, GTALUG Talk <[email protected]>
> Send reply to:	[email protected]
>
> From:	<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>] On Behalf Of Paul King<br>
> To:	Myles Braithwaite; <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>; <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a><br>
> Subject:	Re: [TLUG]: Please subscribe to the new GTALUG Talks List<br>
>
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Clive DaSilva <cdasilva-q6EoVN9bke6w5LPnMra/[email protected]> wrote:
>      Hello Paul
>      
>      I have the same issue with tlug right now
>      
>      Clive
>      
>      -----Original Message-----
>      From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul King
>      Sent: September-29-14 11:37 PM
>      To: Myles Braithwaite; [email protected]; [email protected]
>      Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Please subscribe to the new GTALUG Talks List
>      
>      I am not getting messages after subscribing a while ago, also. I just sent
>      an email to [email protected] as suggested on your web page, but
>      have never gotten any feedback as to whether my subscription was successful.
>      
>      Paul King
>
> I see Clive's address on the list of members of the new list, but not Paul's, so
> there is some kind of difference between the issues you are having.
>
> Note that we are using Mailman for the new list, which has the consequence
> that there is a particular "two phase commit" to the process of subscribing;
> you should expect to get a message indicating that an application for that
> address has been added, and that you should visit an approval URL as the
> approximation to indicate that it "really was you" that did so.
> It is possible that some over-exuberant spam filters might mark the
> administrative messages from the mailing list manager as "spam"; that
> should not come as super-surprising in this world where MOST email is
> apparently spam.
>
> It might prove simpler to interact with the mailing list software via the
> web interface; visit <http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk>.
>
> Clive appears to already be fully added to the new list, so when there is
> traffic, I'd expect Clive to see that. (Indeed, this message is being sent
> to both lists, so Clive might well see two copies.)
>
> I could add Paul "by hand" to the list, though it seems to me as though
> it is preferable to retry, and perhaps figure out what problem was preventing
> subscription to work.
>
> I will observe that the new list hasn't been vastly active, so it's possible
> that Clive happened not to see any traffic.
> --
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> question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"
>
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David Collier-Brown,         | Always do right. This will gratify
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