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Dear Amy:
"A mans mind, stretched by new ideas, can never be elected to Congress"
Anon
Amy Lyn Edwards wrote:
> Dear Conch-l subscribers,
> I have assured Helmut privately several times that neither the list
> owners nor the list program is holding or rejecting any email from him.
> The Conch-L list guidelines relating to subscriptions and posts are clearly
> stated on the web site and they are the rules the list is governed by. It
> is unfortunate that Helmut's recent messages were sent to the list instead
> of to the list owners as it makes it seem we are the cause of his problem
> or at least unsympathetic to his problem. That is not the case. Helmut
> seems to be having an intermittent problem posting to the list, however it
> is not occurring at the listserver and therefore I can not help him resolve
> or correct the problem. The mail headers of his most recent posts to the
> list show that his messages were delayed at a mail gateway,
> mail.netwing.at, which is probably his internet service provider.
> Amy
>
> FYI I have included the following information concerning the management of
> list subscriptions:
>
> The listserver can and will automatically drop a subscriber if email from
> the list can not be delivered for several days. If this happens the
> subscriber should receive an automated email telling them they have been
> removed and why. This is caused by email problems at the subscribers end
> not here at the server end. It can take a while to determine why this
> happens and I can not always correct the problem.
>
> As list owner I can subscribe or unsubscribe people to the list. I do this
> either because someone has requested my help because of a problem with
> their subscription, or because of repeated errors trying to deliver list
> email to non-existent email accounts. In this case the subscriber would
> receive an email telling them I have subscribed/unsubscribed them from the
> list.
>
> The computer that runs the listserv program or other parts of the UGA
> network are occasionally shutdown for upgrades or repairs. This does not
> happen often and it usually only lasts a few hours. These usually are
> scheduled between 5 and 7 am MY TIME. Once in a while there are problems
> with the Internet feed between Athens and Atlanta that delay Internet
> activity. This is very rare.
>
> Amy Edwards, Program Coordinator ------ [log in to unmask]
>
> Georgia Museum of Natural History -------- phone (706) 542-4137
> University of Georgia -------- FAX 706-542-3920
> Athens, GA 30602-1882 -------- http://museum.nhm.uga.edu/
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> "A man's mind, stretched by new ideas, can never go back to its original
> dimensions." Oliver Wendell Holmes
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