Re: OT: Starting a topic

If that's a significant problem, I can think of two annoying semi-solutions:

(a) add a footer to emails sent (from the normal address) that identify
the correct place to subscribe and post messages; this is common on many
mailing lists (including the relay list). It might also need to warn
that you can subscribe read-only at many imitators, but you cannot
always post!

(b) send out a weekly/monthly faq style email. I think this happens on a
few newsgroups. I don't think this is a particularly good solution
because you'd have to be lurking for more than (frequency-in-days/2)
days before you posted on average before it would help & you'd have to
read it & I doubt we have enough newbie turnover for it to provide much
relevant info.

--
Tristan.

Eric Christopherson wrote:
> On Mar 25, 2008, at 6:40 PM, David J. Peterson wrote:
>> Well, you should be sending your message to:
>>
>> <CONLANG@...>
>>
>> Is that where you're sending it?  You're not using the Yahoo!
>> Group interface, are you?  That's no longer supported (I think
>> the way it is is we want to delete it now, but no one has the
>> password anymore, so we're stuck with it).
>
> Do we at least know who owned the group? I'm thinking that that
> person would have the best chance of getting Yahoo's attention about
> the situation. Of course, that's probably already been tried.
>
> It just really irritates me that we have this problem. I know of
> several people who have tried sending messages to the Yahoo group and
> getting frustrated by it; at least the ones I know of found out how
> to actually post, but I wonder how many people have just given up at
> that point.
>
>> -David
>> *******************************************************************
>> "sunly eleSkarez ygralleryf ydZZixelje je ox2mejze."
>> "No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn."
>>
>> -Jim Morrison
>>
>> http://dedalvs.free.fr/
>>
>> On Mar 25, 2008, at 3∞54 PM, caeruleancentaur wrote:
>>> Whenever I try to start a topic, my message is returned to my own e-
>>> mail address and I receive the following note:
>>>
>>> "We are unable to deliver the message from
>>> <caeruleancentaur@...>
>>> to <conlang@...>.
>>>
>>> "The conlang group is for archival use only and does not accept
>>> direct
>>> postings.  If you want to post to the actual email list, please send
>>> your message to conlang@egroups.com."
>>>
>>> Can anyone explain this to me?
>>>
>>> Charlie
>>>