[Lincolnparkdc] why doesn't my message appear on the list?

[cynthia whittlesey]

Thank you, Tom!

On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 9:02 PM Tom Woteki <drwo at woteki.com> wrote:

> Howdy Neighbors:
>
> You may wonder why your message doesn’t immediately appear on the list or
> maybe not at all. (This has occurred recently.) It’s not because I moderate
> the list. It’s because of the way you have sent your message, which results
> in needing my intervention. There are 2 typical cases:
>
>
>    - You send your message from an address different from the one with
>    which you are subscribed. In such cases  you are effectively posting as a
>    non-subscriber. Non-subscriber postings are trapped by the server and
>    require my intervention to be released. I may not get around to reviewing
>    and releasing such messages for a while, which delays your posting. Or,
>    after review I may just discard the posting because it is then late or
>    repetitive.  Solution: only post to the list using the address under which
>    you are subscribed and your posting will magically go through in real time.
>    -
>    - You send your message to multiple destinations (typically to other
>    lists to which you are subscribed) using the blind copy, or “bcc” feature
>    of your mail app. This is known as implicit addressing. As above, your
>    message gets trapped by the server and requires my intervention. Solution:
>    do not use bcc when posting to this list. Inconvenient perhaps, but avoids
>    delay of your message.
>
>
> While I’m at it: there are 367 subscribers to this list from around
> Capitol Hill. (Watch out Zuck!) I operate the list out of my man cave at my
> (modest) expense. I am the sole administrator of the list. No one else has
> access to the server. I have banned would-be subscribers of an overt
> commercial nature. I have not otherwise turned down requests from anyone to
> join the list.
>
> When impassioned conversation has occurred it has always been civil. We
> all thank  each other for that.
>
> Cheers and enjoy,
>
> Toen Crier, aka Dr. Wo, aka Tom, your neighbor
>
>
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