[sf-lug] I believe the mailing list is fine, nei? ;->

[Bobbie Sellers]

On 1/27/20 11:34 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> Well, I don't see the intended posting from Bobbie on this ML, which
> I certainly regret but have done all I can to help, really.  Just a
> couple of follow-up items:
     Well I still have not been able to post my notification of the next 
meeting this
Sunday on the list.  This is just an attempt to determine if I can get 
there by
replying to a message.  I tried the test ml and that message went thru ok.

     Bobbie
>
> 1.  Sure, if you as a subscriber genuinely think you've sent mail to the
> ML and it's mysteriously failed to show up, especially if you see signs
> of it _neither_ in your received subscriber copies of sent ML traffic
> _nor_ in the HTML archive (http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/),
> please feel free to ask for help and, time permitting, I'll investigate
> on my end, starting (and perhaps ending, as it did today) with seeing
> whether there was even a delivery attempt.
>
> But please, please, please, if you do that, provide accurate timestamps,
> e.g., 'sent at 9:02:29 AM today', not something vague like 'this
> morning'.  Give me something specific to search for.  (And, goes without
> saying, make sure your darned system time is accurate, for gosh sakes.)
>
>
> 2.  You want to test whether mail to MLs on linuxmafia.com works?
> Great!  The operative word is 'test', which ought to remind you that
> there's a 'test at linuxmafia.com' mailing list for exactly that purpose --
> as a place where anyone may send test mails to make sure they can reach
> linuxmafia.com and that Mailman on linuxmafia.com is working.  (Don't
> forget to _join_ test at linuxmafia.com before trying to post to it.
> Find it by starting at the front page of the linuxmafia.com Web site and
> looking for the mailing lists link.  It's right there.)
>
> I respect people trying to _test_ before appealing to me for help saying
> 'I tried to mail the [blah] mailing list and I don't know what happened.
> Can you figure it out?'  This gets kinda old, after a while.
>
>
> 3.  Apologies, but I'm going to probably be off the Internet and unable
> to immediately assist for the next couple of days.  See you on the other
> side!
>