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Subject: Avoiding frustration
Author: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
Date: 02-Sep-2001 12:38:57
As volunteer admin for this mailing list (which currently has over 800
members), I've noted that the primary source of frustration for users seems
to be inability to post messages, or to unsubscribe from the list, when you
want to.

These problems, in turn, are almost invariably due to a simple cause --
failure to communicate to the list management software using the same
identity or "return address" that you used when you subscribed.

The software is set to ignore postings and administrative requests (like
unsubscribes, for example) that come from someone who is not known to be a
member of the list. This is to avoid spam and other mischief, but it means
that the software must be able to identify you as a list member.

It does this by looking at your "return address." In Outlook Express, this
is the e-mail address you enter in Tools|Accounts|Mail|Properties for your
current e-mail account. In Eudora, it's in Tools|Options|Getting
Started|Return Address. Either way, as long as this address matches the
one to which force12talk is sending you e-mail, you should have no problems.

If you change ISPs and don't choose to use an alias server, the best thing
to do is to unsubscribe using your old address and resubscribe using the
new one. Note that you can do this even from your new ISP, as long as you
temporarily use your old return address, so that the list knows who you are.

If you need help, or have any questions, please write to me --
n4zr@contesting.com -- rather than to Force 12, who just relay such
messages to me. Thanks!


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