fixing oslist
doug
os at footprintsinthewind.com
Wed Apr 14 17:53:41 PDT 2010
Michael--
Perhaps Annamarie's posts need to be mentioned too.
:- Doug.
On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 17:24 -0500, Michael Herman wrote:
> well, this last message came through, harrison. i'm assembling a
> number of instances from the archives that i know that messages showed
> up there in the archives and didn't get out, at least didn't reach
> me... i have lisa heft, christine koehler, anne hiha so far. if you
> have a specific instance you cna point me to, i'll put it in my note
> to bsu. they've got the lsoft people (software vendor) looking into
> now. m
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> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Harrison Owen <hhowen at verizon.net>
> wrote:
> Michael – you can add me to the list. There doesn’t seem to be
> any rational – but whoever said that computers were
> rational???
>
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> From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf
> Of Michael Herman
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 1:18 PM
> To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> Subject: fixing oslist
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> hi all,
>
> i've just gotten word from our hosts at boise state. now is a
> good time, if you're having trouble posting to the list, i.e.
> your messages hits the archives but not everyone's inbox, to
> test this to make sure it's still happening -- and to document
> it for those who might be able to fix it.
>
> there are several -- lisa, michael jr., christine and
> christine, and myself, who i know have had troubles. this
> message might not even make it out. but if it does, and you
> are one of these folks, i've jiggled your settings a bit to
> see if that helps. try to post again. invite replies. if
> you don't get any, then forward the details (see message from
> bsu, below) and send to me to forward on to bsu.
>
> also, if you try to post from the website, DO NOT check the
> box to receive a copy of your own post. that seems to be a
> problem (see below from bsu.)
>
> in the meantime, if you can't mail directly to the list, try
> the website. i know it's not the ideal situation, but what
> i've done is set myself on digest, so i get an unreadable mash
> of daily postings, but it has a simple list of message
> subjects at the top. that is readable, and it's my cue that
> some things have been posted, prompting me to go to the site
> to read the ones i'm interested in. it's a decent work
> around, for the moment.
>
> thanks, m
>
>
> here is what i got today from boise state...
>
> I'm very puzzled by this behavior as well. I have had reports
> of this
> off and on for the last 6 to 9 months. I had one user go
> around and
> around with lsoft and basically lsoft blamed gmail. There's
> another
> guy who has earthlink as his provider and he's had all kinds
> of
> problems. His posts wind up in the spam folder quite
> frequently.
> I've also seen a thread on the list maintainers listserv that
> suggests
> that listserv is sending messages with duplicate message ids
> which
> causes mailers to cull perfectly legitimate mail. This seems
> to
> happen when people use the web gui and click the box to ask to
> a
> receipt. I just documented another case of this today. I
> have also
> noticed that the sheer volume that hits the listserv machine
> has
> reached ridiculous proportions. The spammers seem to start
> work
> Friday afternoon and continue on through the weekend. So it's
> a
> bloody mess.
>
> I will forward your query to lsoft support. You're certainly
> welcome
> to copy complaints on to me. I do need a date and time the
> message
> was sent and a description of what happened. I also need an
> email
> address. I've been very busy since my job has changed here,
> so I have
> done triage on the listserv. I seem to have come up for air
> right
> now, so this is an opportune time for me to work on these
> issues.
>
> I'll forward your query on to lsoft support as well. Always
> good to
> hear from you. Sorry your list isn't behaving. I'll get back
> to you
> with lsoft's suggestions if there are any.
>
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