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I signed up years ago and never got an email, now they are flooding my
mailbox. If we unsubscribe from this list will we still be on the FB one?
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 12:50 AM, Wendy Howard via Legacyusergroup <
legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> wrote:
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> From: Wendy Howard <wendy.how...@gmail.com>
> To: Mailing List for users of Legacy Family Tree software <
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> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 12:47:07 +1300
> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] What is going on? Spam or something else?
> Hi Annie and everyone else wondering what is going on...
>
> Legacy encountered problems with all of its mailing lists a few days ago,
> and there has been no list mail for five or six days until the past hour or
> so.
>
> If you belong to the Legacy User Group on Facebook*, you will have seen it
> mentioned there.
>
> * I am in no way saying that everyone should join this group. It is there
> for those who wish to take part, just as the mailing lists are there for
> those people who want to use those. It just happens that I use both so I
> know the mailing list problem came up there.
>
> Clearly, this new mailing list using Mailman is the solution that Legacy
> have found, to set up a new list. There will be teething problems while we
> all get used to the new list and Legacy discover the implications of the
> settings they've chosen for it. It's a big task on both sides.
>
> I suspect, from some of the posts I've seen, that Legacy had to resort to
> an old list of LUG members to get going again. If you don't want to
> receive the mail at all, feel free to unsubscribe. If you want to be here,
> but the mail sent to a different address, change the address.
>
> Instructions on how to manage your own subscriptions (which is new to this
> mailing list), are given in the email you received with the subject
> "Welcome to the "Legacyusergroup" mailing list".
>
> If you wish, you should** be able unsubscribe from this mailing list by
> sending an email _from the address that is receiving the mail_, to
> legacyusergroup-requ...@legacyusers.com with the single word
> /unsubscribe/ in either the body or the subject line.
>
> ** I've not tested this command, but Mailman is also used for the Rootsweb
> mailing lists, and it works there.
>
> Hope this helps everyone to deal to the situation calmly. :-)
>
> Kind Regards,
> Wendy
>
> Annie Stratton via Legacyusergroup wrote on 23/02/2016 12:31:
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>> I received a welcome message to a legacy user email group that I know
>> nothing about. I figured that someone had skimmed my old email and deleted
>> the message as spam.
>>
>> It's possible I signed up for it a long while ago when I first started
>> using Legacy. This is an old email address I rarely use these days, and I
>> do not recall getting anything from it and assumed it defunct.
>>
>> Also am receiving emails from various people who are as baffled as I.
>> Then a message explaining that Legacy users group was changing email
>> servers or something and this is why the message. It would have been good
>> to include such an explanation in the first message, along with an opt-in.
>> Or better, a non-group message with an explanation of what happened and an
>> inquiry about interest i participation that one could respond to if one
>> wished.
>>
>> I'm afraid there is too much uncertainty in the networld to feel easy
>> about a message coming out of the blue like this! I will not answer to the
>> emails for fear it is spam or phishing, but did want to know if this
>> originated with the old Legacy Users Group with address on Legacy website.
>> If so, I'm sure it was well-meant. But I am not interested, have my hands
>> full with research and occasionally drop in at the FB Legacy Users Group.
>> My inbox is too full to take on more.
>>
>> Annie
>>
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