The forum was set up again last night by Avnet. Let us all hope it works better
in the future.
For the last 6 days the list has had about subscribers, which means no
deliveries to 170-odd people. If you are one of thse orphans, list traffic has
been moderate since then, about 30 messages. These can be retrieved from
Andrew's web archive site (to which there is a link in the Miscellaneous section
at http://www.crix.org.uk
Checking the subscriber list I see one or two names which might be duplicates.
If you have two subscriptions after the events of the last three months you can
unsubscribe one of them (see foot of this message) or ask me to do it (ditto).
As a result of the list being reinitialised your personal message delivery
profile may have become lost. The two items of most interest here are an option
to receive messages by digest (batched rather than sent immediately) and the
option to override the Reply-To header in the forum messages. This is used
commonly to ensure that when you Reply to a forum message the reply message goes
to the message author only and not to the forum, and also to remedy the curious
behaviour of Compuserve's mail system. So Beware ! If you rely on the Reply-To
override, check it is still there before you use it again. If you have remained
on the forum itself these last 3 months then I have a record of your delivery
options and I will reset them as they were. If you were on the newforum list,
I
have no record and hence cannot reset them. To change your options, see the FAQ
or ask me to do it for you.
If you had any aliases defined, these may have gone too.
Hoping for calmer waters .....
John Cliff
Europa Forum minder
john@crixbinfield.freeserve.co.uk
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