Roger,
You're doing a good job and we need you. I wonder how many people are
actually left. Certainly, not many seem very active. Groups.io is working
well for DB Review, thank goodness.
Miriam
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger Loran
Bailey (Redacted sender "rogerbailey81" for DMARC)
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 9:54 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Frank Ventura
<frank.ventura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Not Receiving messages
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
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[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger Loran
Bailey
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2017 3:16 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ;
Bob Hachey <mailto:bhachey@xxxxxxxxxxx> <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