North American Fruit Explorers mailing list at ibiblio

["Greg Miller" <gsmiller@cet.com>]

There have been an increasing number of bounced messages lately.  
Some of it is spam, but an increasing number of messages are coming 
from people who almost certainly are members of the list, but who are 
rejected as being "not a member of the list".  Why are they rejected? 
 Because computers are VERY literal.

Many people have multiple email addresses, but only belong to this 
list with one email address.  If you are subscribed as 
johnqpublic@user.com but post your message from 
johnqpublic@otheremail.com, your message is going to be rejected.

The other common occurrence is that your internet provider has made 
some small tweak to how it processes your email.  For example, when 
you subscribed it listed you as johnqpublic@user.com, but identifies 
you as johnqpublic@mail.user.com.  Frequently email addressed to 
either email address will get you, but messages posted from the 
slightly different email address aren't recognized as being the from 
the same user.

The solution to problem 1 is to subscribe with multiple email 
addresses (set all except 1 to nomail) and then you can post from 
all, or post only from the email address that is valid.  In the 
second case you will probably need to unsubscribe the old address, or 
add the corrected version of your current identifier (and set one 
address to "nomai"l if you don't want duplicate messages.)

I only tend to administrative tasks once per week, so try to work 
around rejected messages yourself before checking with me.

Thanks,
Greg Miller