18 Jun
2010
18 Jun
'10
10:20 p.m.
I referred someone to this mailing list, but he's unable to join. The
server says that he needs to wait to be approved, but nothing happens.
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
19 Jun
19 Jun
9:43 a.m.
This has also occurred to me twice in the past year. In both cases,
they eventually quit trying... A pity since one of them was Bruce Damer
of the DigiBarn
Steve Shumaker
On 6/19/2010 1:20 AM, David Griffith wrote:
I referred someone to this mailing list, but he's unable to join. The
server says that he needs to wait to be approved, but nothing happens.
10:21 a.m.
Ahh, but did it specify the length of time he had to wait?!
How long has he waited so far?
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Griffith" <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2010 6:20 AM
Subject: joining cctalk
I referred someone to this mailing list, but he's unable to join. The
server says that he needs to wait to be approved, but nothing happens.
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
12:50 p.m.
I too met a person at the UK VCF who failed to join and gave up, this
is becoming embarrassing to the list community
Dave Caroline
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 6:20 AM, David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu> wrote:
I referred someone to this mailing list, but he's unable to join. ?The
server says that he needs to wait to be approved, but nothing happens.
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
12:54 p.m.
Any idea when the last new member got in? Could be the process to join has
broken down for a long time and nobody noticed?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Caroline" <dave.thearchivist at gmail.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2010 3:50 PM
Subject: Re: joining cctalk
I too met a person at the UK VCF who failed to join and gave up, this
is becoming embarrassing to the list community
Dave Caroline
1:06 p.m.
On Sat, 19 Jun 2010, Teo Zenios wrote:
Any idea when the last new member got in? Could be the
process to join has
broken down for a long time and nobody noticed?
There ought to be a group of people who can take care of list management
when Jay isn't able to do so.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave
Caroline"
<dave.thearchivist at gmail.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2010 3:50 PM
Subject: Re: joining cctalk
I too met a person at the UK VCF who failed to join and gave up, this
is becoming embarrassing to the list community
Dave Caroline
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
4:29 p.m.
On 19/06/10 21:06, David Griffith wrote:
There ought to be a group of people who can take care
of list management
when Jay isn't able to do so.
Seconded -- it's always a good idea to have at least one 'secondary'
moderator/list-admin, even if all he/she can do is authorise new members...
I actually wouldn't mind helping out like this -- I'm handling
moderation for one Yahoo group and a couple of Mailman lists; one more
wouldn't be a big deal.
Or the other option would be to set up an open-access "reflector".
Everything on cctalk gets posted to the reflector, and the folks who are
waiting for their membership to be approved can post to it. When their
cctalk membership is OK'd, they unsubscribe from the reflector and start
posting to the main list. This would also give us a second mail-archive
(though it might be useful to add a prefix or suffix to the subject line
of 'reflected' messages, i.e. those that came from 'cctalk proper').
I'd be more than willing to help out with server space, hosting,
list-admin work and so on... $DEITY knows how much I've learned from
this list since I originally signed up, it'd be nice to be able to give
something back!
--
Phil.
classiccmp at philpem.me.uk
http://www.philpem.me.uk/
8:37 p.m.
I changed my ISP and it took over a year to get back on the list. Thanks to
Lawrence for making it happen.
Best regards, Steven
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Philip Pemberton
<classiccmp at philpem.me.uk>wrote:
On 19/06/10 21:06, David Griffith wrote:
There ought to be a group of people who can take
care of list management
when Jay isn't able to do so.
Seconded -- it's always a good idea to have at least one 'secondary'
moderator/list-admin, even if all he/she can do is authorise new members...
I actually wouldn't mind helping out like this -- I'm handling moderation
for one Yahoo group and a couple of Mailman lists; one more wouldn't be a
big deal.
Or the other option would be to set up an open-access "reflector".
Everything on cctalk gets posted to the reflector, and the folks who are
waiting for their membership to be approved can post to it. When their
cctalk membership is OK'd, they unsubscribe from the reflector and start
posting to the main list. This would also give us a second mail-archive
(though it might be useful to add a prefix or suffix to the subject line of
'reflected' messages, i.e. those that came from 'cctalk proper').
I'd be more than willing to help out with server space, hosting, list-admin
work and so on... $DEITY knows how much I've learned from this list since I
originally signed up, it'd be nice to be able to give something back!
--
Phil.
classiccmp at philpem.me.uk
http://www.philpem.me.uk/
2:04 p.m.
Especially if some members are leaving on the quiet - I hope noone has, but
unless they are a very regular poster (e.g. Tony Duell) it would be hard to
spot that they had gone.
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
PS. If my previous message, or indeed this one, are duplicated then I
apologize. Yahoo's SMTP and POP servers seem to be playing up for me at the
moment.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Caroline" <dave.thearchivist at gmail.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2010 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: joining cctalk
I too met a person at the UK VCF who failed to join and gave up, this
is becoming embarrassing to the list community
Dave Caroline
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 6:20 AM, David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu>
wrote:
I referred someone to this mailing list, but he's unable to join. The
server says that he needs to wait to be approved, but nothing happens.
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
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