I don't think that's the problem. I recall changing that from the
default. There is something else I recall changing too, but I don't
remember what it was. When I was setting up the group I remember that
there was one default setting that I thought might cause this random
unsubscribing, so I did change it. However, whatever it was it did not
prevent the unsubscribing after all because at least both Miriam and
Charlie have come unsubscribed over the time we have been here and now I
think the same thing has happened to Bob. Before I set up the group I
had already had experiences with that on the Bookshare groups. Not only
had I been unsubscribed, but there was a very long time volunteer who
sent me a private message about some matter and by happenstance
mentioned that the volunteer list had been very quiet for a long time.
As a matter of fact, it had been very active. I told her what had
probably happened and she resubscribed. She had been unsubscribed for at
least a couple of months and didn't know it. Alas, Yahoo groups used to
be so much more reliable. I once was a list owner for a political
discussion group there and it was very versatile and easy to use. The
trouble was that I was actually trying to moderate that group and it
turned out to be a lot of work. The reason I deleted that group, though,
was because while using My Space to look for new subscribers I found out
that I was accomplishing my purpose for running the group much better on
My Space. Well, My Space eventually became pretty much useless too. Some
time after I gave up my Yahoo group I started hearing how it had become
very screen reader unfriendly for blind moderators. Then when I tried to
set up this group I found that out for myself. I was unable to complete
the setting up. I already knew about the problems that Freelists had,
but since I couldn't use Yahoo Groups I fell back on Freelists. I knew
that there were other list hosts out there, but I wasn't really familiar
with any of them. I am thinking now that either Emissives or Groups.io
might have been better choices, but I didn't know anything about them
and I am not sure that Groups.IO existed then. It is pretty new. Anyway,
I set up the group because after Octothorp stopped working if the Blind
Democracy group was going to continue somebody had to set up a new one
and everyone else seemed to think that one had to be a technical genius
to set up an email list. Believe me, if that was the case I couldn't
have done it. Ironically, though, just before that time I had been
contemplating quitting the group. Now, it seems to be my job.
On 7/27/2017 1:19 PM, Frank Ventura wrote:
Roger,I use Freelists for a few lists I moderate. In the admin setting there is a combo/dropdown box that allows you to change the excessive bounces action. I think the default is unsubscribe.
Frank
*From:*blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Roger Loran Bailey
*Sent:* Wednesday, July 26, 2017 3:16 PM
*To:* blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Bob Hachey <bhachey@xxxxxxxxxxx>
*Subject:* [blind-democracy] Re: Not Receiving messages
For whatever reason Freelists has a habit of unsubscribing people without warning and without notification. I think that might have happened to you. Every now and then I get a notification that a nonsubscriber has tried to post and I just automatically approve it. Several in the last week came from an email address that seemed familiar, but I didn't look into it to see who it was. I just approved them and this one is apparently one of those I approved. Try resubscribing.
On 7/26/2017 7:39 AM, Bob Hachey wrote:
Hi all,
I have not received messages from this list in at least a week.
Bummer.
Bob