Thread: Subcribing to this list, what's the secret?
I seem to have a natural knack for hitting the ruts around here, which is exciting. I've tried to subscribe to the list using both yahoo and gmail email accounts and the webform always reports "The email address you entered does not appear to be valid." I would like to use either yahoo or gmail because I am very interested in keeping spam down on my main email accounts (see Jan 7 2006 thread 'E-mail harvesting on PG lists?'). I've been posting via a newsreader but it seems that there is some strange pattern with messages not making it on the the list using that pipe...all of my posts show on the google archive of this list but a good number (25%?) seem to be missing from the mailing list archives that are found on the postgres site. Example, it seems that both of my responses to Scott Marlowe never made it to the list, but are somehow listed in google, and on the newsgroup. Scott was PO'd that I didn't respond to his first post, that got me to check into why he didn't. I posted about this issue, the failure of the website subscription form to accept (at least) an @yahoo.com email acct, and no one replied (though that was one of the posts that didnt' seem to make it onto the mailing list, but is on google & newsgroup). Can someone tell me what the secret is, or check the webform at postgresql.org and make sure it's in order?
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > I seem to have a natural knack for hitting the ruts around here, which > is exciting. I've tried to subscribe to the list using both yahoo and > gmail email accounts and the webform always reports "The email address > you entered does not appear to be valid." Sorry, there was a recent DNS problem that was causing some false negatives when verifying email addresses. Please try it again, or simply mail me the addresses you wish to have subscribed, and whether you would like them set as "nomail" or not, and I'll take care of it. The same offer to anyone else having recent subscription problems. - -- Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com End Point Corporation PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200612141112 http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFFgXf1vJuQZxSWSsgRAhLfAKCxniJBwl04lUhqW4pm+W00yRGLUQCfZRnT PBFyyRoQGjCluwEyqIMzprc= =3+i3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
If you have a dot in your gmail username, take it out. Gmail ignores it and validation scripts often puke on it. Then use that email as your reply to, not some nonexistent carp. - Ian On 12/13/06, wheel <wheel@wheel.not> wrote: > I seem to have a natural knack for hitting the ruts around here, which > is exciting. I've tried to subscribe to the list using both yahoo and > gmail email accounts and the webform always reports "The email address > you entered does not appear to be valid." I would like to use either > yahoo or gmail because I am very interested in keeping spam down on my > main email accounts (see Jan 7 2006 thread 'E-mail harvesting on PG > lists?'). I've been posting via a newsreader but it seems that there is > some strange pattern with messages not making it on the the list using > that pipe...all of my posts show on the google archive of this list but > a good number (25%?) seem to be missing from the mailing list archives > that are found on the postgres site. Example, it seems that both of my > responses to Scott Marlowe never made it to the list, but are somehow > listed in google, and on the newsgroup. Scott was PO'd that I didn't > respond to his first post, that got me to check into why he didn't. > > I posted about this issue, the failure of the website subscription form > to accept (at least) an @yahoo.com email acct, and no one replied > (though that was one of the posts that didnt' seem to make it onto the > mailing list, but is on google & newsgroup). Can someone tell me what > the secret is, or check the webform at postgresql.org and make sure it's > in order? > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? > > http://archives.postgresql.org/ >
wheel wrote: > I seem to have a natural knack for hitting the ruts around here, which > is exciting. I've tried to subscribe to the list using both yahoo and > gmail email accounts and the webform always reports "The email address > you entered does not appear to be valid." I would like to use either > yahoo or gmail because I am very interested in keeping spam down on my > main email accounts (see Jan 7 2006 thread 'E-mail harvesting on PG > lists?'). I've been posting via a newsreader but it seems that there is > some strange pattern with messages not making it on the the list using > that pipe...all of my posts show on the google archive of this list but > a good number (25%?) seem to be missing from the mailing list archives > that are found on the postgres site. Example, it seems that both of my > responses to Scott Marlowe never made it to the list, but are somehow > listed in google, and on the newsgroup. Scott was PO'd that I didn't > respond to his first post, that got me to check into why he didn't. > > I posted about this issue, the failure of the website subscription form > to accept (at least) an @yahoo.com email acct, and no one replied > (though that was one of the posts that didnt' seem to make it onto the > mailing list, but is on google & newsgroup). Can someone tell me what > the secret is, or check the webform at postgresql.org and make sure it's > in order? I did see your previous email but thought you must have been doing something wrong. Going to: http://www.postgresql.org/community/lists/subscribe and entering my gmail address worked, and I tried a username that contained a period, and that worked too. Interestingly, I can't find your previous email that I saw in our archives, or in google archives. What email address where you trying? -- Bruce Momjian bruce@momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +