Thread: Re: [GENERAL] Subcribing to this list, what's the secret?
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?
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> > 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 also have not been able to duplicate the problem from multiple yahoo and gmail tests. I did however note that postgresql.org will not let you subscribe as wheel@wheel.not . Is .not even a valid suffix? Joshua D. Drake > 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? > -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> 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 did see your previous email but thought you must have been doing
> something wrong.
Per this morning's discussion, there was a DNS misconfiguration that
prevented the webserver from resolving email addresses. It's claimed
to be corrected now.
regards, tom lane
> I also have not been able to duplicate the problem from multiple yahoo > and gmail tests. I did however note that postgresql.org will not let you > subscribe as wheel@wheel.not . Is .not even a valid suffix? I wasn't able to create an account for pg_docs mailing list the other day. I figured that everyone was tired of me reporting what I incorrectly thought were bugs in the documentation. ;-) Regards, Richard Broersma Jr.