Sorry guys, but this is another test ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Jones" <flyk...@wi.rr.com> To: "KR builders and pilots" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 4:08 PM Subject: Re: KR>problems with KRnet?
> Mark, > I agree with you that we should wait till Wednesday to see if it can be > resolved. Absolutely NO to Yahoo or other freebies which bombard us with > advertisement and spam. If this list does not get corrected promptly by the > people at Mylist then by all means let's go back to Mailinglist. After I > joined Road Runner, I did not receive any spam for over a year and now I get > it almost daily. You know, if I had helped all those foreigners needing a > bank to put their millions in, I could be the richest man in America by now. > > Mark Jones (N886MJ) > Wales, WI USA > E-mail me at flyk...@wi.rr.com > Visit my KR-2S CorvAIRCRAFT web site at > http://mywebpage.netscape.com/n886mj/homepage.html > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Langford" <n5...@hiwaay.net> > To: "KR builders and pilots" <kr...@mylist.net> > Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 1:33 PM > Subject: Re: KR>problems with KRnet? > > > > Phil Maley wrote: > > > > > I am wondering why we don't just use yahoo groups. I run two or three > > > yahoo mailing lists and it just keeps working with no problems. Their > > > service is free although there is some advertising. They also provide > > > plenty of space for uploading files, photos etc. Maybe we shouldn't > > > try to muddy the waters at this time but it is a serious alternative. > > > > I really don't know what to do. The old list at mailinglists.com worked > > flawlessly for two years before it just went belly-up for 4 days, but it's > > back and working fine now. All I have to do is uncheck a couple of boxes > > and we could migrate back to that one in a heartbeat and leave this one in > > the dust. I'm not real impressed with the service we've gotten here. > I've > > emailed them with about 10 messages and gotten exactly one reply from a > > human saying "we'll check into that". Of course service wasn't that great > > from the previous list either, but then we never needed it either. This > > list has a lot of handy bells and whistles, but people have always had > > problems getting signed up for it (which is a hassle for me), and now with > > most of the messages disappearing, we need to do something different > because > > it's just not getting the job done. > > > > I have a personal hangup with yahoo groups. Even if Yahoo doesn't sell > your > > email address to others, you address is just sitting out there for the > > pickin' by the marketer's search engines. This list and the last were > > "private" lists, and unless you're a member, you don't have access to the > > member list, and even then, they are painful to extract (ask me how I > know). > > I'm working on my third week with new email address, and haven't had a > > single spam message yet! I'd like to keep it that way. And the endless > > advertising, popups, banner ads, and having to scroll down through it all > to > > get to the actual message just makes me crazy. > > > > I AM convinced that there is a problem with this list though. Although > only > > a couple of guys have cc'd me on messages that were sent to the list, at > > least ten (that I know of) made it to me, but not the list, which absolves > > their ISP, and strongly suggests a problem at mylist.net. And I've sent > > serveral myself that didn't make it. I'm assuming that the folks at > > mylist.net are on vacation this weekend, but will jump on this on Tuesday > > morning. Maybe we should give them until Wednesday or so to figure it out > > before we jump ship. Also, if we keep trying to use the system, we might > > find more clues to help them identify the problem. > > > > One difference between this time and the last time is that I have a list > of > > everybody's email address that is on this list, and can easily send a > > message to all subscribers, regardless of whether the list is working or > > not. Although it would be a hassle for me to add folks back to the old > list > > myself, I could send a message telling folks to resubscribe, and how to do > > it, so nobody should be left behind. > > > > After Wednesday, we'll think of something, but I'm certainly open to > > suggestions... > > > > Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL > > N56ML "at" hiwaay.net > > see KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html
