Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 15:26:15 -0300 From: "Mark Dodel" Subject: [VOICENWS] Admin: Some News list information From: "Mark Dodel" Just some information about this list. FYI, The VOICE News list has been in existence since about June 1997. According to my count we have sent about 4,000 announcements since it inception. The VOICE News list is now at 772 subscribers. That is down just a bit from its high over the past couple years of around 810. There are currently about 15 subscribers that send back failure messages usually do to being administratively suspended addresses or full mailboxes which I will probably begin unsubscribing these soon to cut down on the reject messages. Any rejection message that says the subscriber is unknown or not a customer is unsubscribed from the list when I do periodic list maintenance (about once a month or couple months). We have implemented a confirmation feature for both subscribing to and unsubscribing from the list. If you change email addresses please make sure you unsubscribe the old one when you subscribe the new one. This can all be done in one email to the list manager. Send an email to majormajor at os2voice.org with the following in the body of the text: unsubscribe news your at OLDemail.address subscribe news your at NEWemail.address end You will then receive a confirmation message which you must respond to, to have the action carried out. Unless you are having problems doing this yourself, please don't ask the moderators to handle this, as the confirmation process has added an additional level of complexity to the process. You can also subscribe/unsubscribe by going to the VOICE Mailing lists page - http://www.os2voice.org/MailingLists.html but you still have to reply to the confirmation with either method. Finally a bit about submitting news items to the list. Please send all submissions to submit at os2voice.org and not to a moderators' personal email addresses. Sending it to the submit address guarantees that the message will get to the correct place and can be handled by any of the list moderators. If you have a list of items in your post (eg, features or fixes for a new release of software), please start each item in the list with a blank space. Otherwise the formatting may get messed up when the post is forwarded to the list. You can put a list delimiter like a "-" or a "#" if you like, but the space is the most important character to start a list item with. And a big thanks for not sending any HTML formatted messages to the list. These are routed to a SPAM folder upon receipt, so if someone has sent any in the past, I may have missed it, but I don't recall ever receiving one. I do browse the SPAM subjects before before deleting them, but the volume is staggering on some days. Text messages only please. :-) That's it for now. Thanks for time and cooperation. Mark -- Warpstock 2004, Denver, Colorado, October 21 - 24, 2004 http://www.warpstock.org Warpstock Europe 2004, Arnhem, The Netherlands, November 26-28th, 2004 http://www.warpstock.net [Moderator's note: All posts are sent without guarantee to the accuracy of the content. We try to verify details and URLs but this is an entirely volunteer run list, so 100% fact checking and the quality/useability of products announced here is impossible. If you respond to this post please remove the DESPAM from the poster's email addresses. Please do not send requests for information about a specific post to the moderator unless it is an update or I sent it.] -- To unsubscribe yourself from this list, send the following message to majormajor at os2voice.org unsubscribe news end Or, visit http://www.os2voice.org/MailingLists.html If you have an announcement you would like posted to the VOICE News list, please send it to submit at os2voice.org. Please include a valid reply address and a real contact name. If you wish to comment on this post, please reply to feedback at os2voice.org