[TR] Impossible to reply or contact

[Mark J Bradakis]

TR6Quebec wrote:
> Mark and Teriann,
>
> I want to thank you for the new member that I am in that kind of list, 
> having so much compassion for the others.....!!!!!

To be honest, if I didn't have compassion for others, a passion for the 
cars and
a desire to assist in keeping them on the road all the Team.Net lists 
would have
gone away a LONG time ago.
>
> I waited more than three weeks to finally get four messages from the 
> administration, the same day, telling me that my four messages were 
> too long and that I should edit them!
>

These lists do not just appear by magic.  There is a man behind the curtain.
I deal with Team.Net stuff when I can.  There is not a professional 
staff on call
24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  It is just me, one guy with some 
hardware in his
basement:

http://www.team.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=20


I saw your message to the list, spent some time looking into it, and found
that your messages were all being held for being over the size limit.  
That is
REAL easy to do when you include an entire digest in your response.

In case you are wondering, at the moment I have about 10,154 admin
messages like yours waiting in the queue for my attention.  I wish I were
only 3 weeks behind on ALL of the lists!

> I was editing the top header but not the bottom one. SORRY!

Actually I think the basic problem here is you may not understand your 
mailer.
You are most likely using some sort of, uh, stuff from Microsoft.  I'll 
reserve that
rant for later.  The default behavior is to include the *entire* 
original message in
a reply when you reply.  So as you say the new stuff you wrote may indeed be
shorter than the Spit for sale message.  But when the entire previous 
message
is included in your message it can easily go over the size limit.  You 
write two
lines, but your mailer includes two hundred from the previous message, 
so off
to the admin limbo the message goes.  And then when I'm not doing my day 
job,
fixing dinner for my wife, taking care of yard work, cleaning the 
litterbox, trying
to maintain any of my vehicles, I may get around to sifting through the 
backlog
and taking care of things.

I'm sorry your visit here was not to your liking.

mjb.