On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Paul Johnson <p...@pjcj.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 10:59:09AM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote:
> > >>>>> "ts" == tom smith <climbingpartn...@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > ts> Hi,
> > ts> Nowhere in the FAQ does it list the address to which you can send
> your
> > ts> beginning programming questions. The FAQ lists the address for
> subscribing:
> >
> > ts> beginners-subscr...@perl.org
> >
> > ts> But the FAQ doesn't list the email address to which you can send
> your
> > ts> questions. For experienced list readers, it may be obvious how you
> can
> > ts> discern the address from the subscription address, but for this
> > ts> inexperienced list subscriber, it was confounding.
> >
> > ts> I suggest that the FAQ explain that you send any questions you have
> to the
> > ts> address:
> >
> > ts> beginners@perl.org
> >
> > and if you aren't subscribed first, your post will get bounced. that is
> > how most email lists work. maybe telling them both addresses and to
> > subscribe using one and to post using the other would work. also this
> > list doesn't have anything directly to do with the FAQ editing. you need
> > to send it to brian d foy who is the FAQ editor.
>
> He's not talking about perlfaq but rather the rather outdated beginners faq
> which is (or isn't) maintained by Kevin Meltzer. Contact details are also
> in
> the faq? Have you tried making contact with him?
>
I just tried. Here is the result:
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This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
beginners-...@perlguy.com
Technical details of permanent failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient
domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further
information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server
returned was: 550 550 5.1.1 <beginners-...@perlguy.com>: Recipient address
rejected: User unknown in local recipient table (state 14).
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