Date   : Sun, 29 Apr 2007 13:23:48 +0100
From   : navalenigma@... (Steve O'Leary)
Subject: Subscribing problems

>From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...>
>To: xx BBC micro mailing list <bbc-micro@...>
>Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Subscribing problems
>Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 12:16:39 -0500
>
>Steve O'Leary wrote:
> >>       majordomo@...
> >
> > I tried to subscribe for someone else as well and got the same message.
> >
> > Anyone know what's happening ? Doesn't say why the email failed to 
>deliver.
>
>The address changed to "...@lists.cloud9.co.uk" a while ago - some time 
>around
>the end of January 2006 (a message was sent from the list owner to the list
>about the move).
>
>We were told that the old address would be shut off at some point, but
>evidently it still works as half the population of the list seem to insist 
>on
>still using it ;-) (but it doesn't apparently still work for subscribing -
>just for normal list traffic - as you've found out)
>
>If the list admin's reading this: is there any way of configuring per user 
>the
>format of the 'sender' field? I get everything from other list members as 
>"bbc
>micro bounces" + my own email address + "@lists.cloud9.co.uk", which always
>makes me do a double-take! :-)  I seem to recall that it never used to do 
>that
>and the "sender" field contents were a lot less alarming...


Thanks for all these various replies, I would think the web page information 
telling you how to subscribe needs updating as it's got the wrong 
information on. Who is in charge of this ?

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