[Fot] Test. Working with Mjb on my address

[Todd Redmond]

Too informative to let it stop 

Thank you Mark!

Thanks
Todd Redmond

> On May 24, 2015, at 11:37 PM, Mark J Bradakis <mark at bradakis.com> wrote:
> 
> Probably time to go over some basics again.
> 
> This is an email list. You can call it a chat line, a bulletin board or whatever, but it is based on
> email addresses.  People send mail to the list, and it is distributed to the email addresses which are
> subscribed to the list. To send mail to the list, you have to have fot at autox.team.net in the "To:" box
> of whatever mail program you are using. That's pretty basic.
> 
> As mentioned, it is a list of email addresses, not people's names.  You are not a member of the list,
> your email address is a member of the list. If you are subscribed as orville at oversteer.org, and you post
> a message from another address like lackey at humungous.com, you will get a message back from mailman saying that
> the message was rejected because the lackey address is not a member of the list. If you frequently use multiple
> addresses, you can subscribe them all, but select only one to actually receive the mail, unless you want many
> copies of each message.
> 
> Lately some things have come into play like DMARC policies for trying to validate email as legitimate. It may
> or may not be of value to you. Some folks, like AOL [ A PITA for mailing list managers since day 1 ] have
> made it difficult for email to flow to their customers as before. Not much I can do about that. I recall some
> years ago I actually did the math - AOL subscribers were like 4% of of the total subscribers for all lists,
> but were generating 24% of all the errors I had to deal with.
> 
> But hey, as an overpaid and underworked admin, I have plenty of time for that, right?
> 
> If you are not getting email on a regular basis because your ISP hates Team.Net, checking the archives
> should keep you up to date.  Link below for real time folks, I think it is at the top for digest users.
> 
> At any rate, it is my intention to keep providing this service. If you have real difficulties with any
> of this, I can try to resolve them as time allows. I really enjoy this group and events like the
> Kastner Cup, and want to do what I can to assist in keeping it around.
> 
> mjb.
> 
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