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Re: OT: Starting a topic

From:T. A. McLeay <conlang@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 26, 2008, 3:02
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 >>>