[ih] Admin note: Apologies to Bob Purvy and ... please check your sending email address if your message doesn't go to the list

[Dan York]

Internet-history subscribers,

Hi, all!  First, I have to apologize to Bob Purvy! For some reason his email address got flagged for moderation in Mailman and so all his messages were queueing up. I unfortunately needed to get the admin password for the list reset - and so could only now get in there to approve them - which is why you suddenly got a flood of messages from Bob! I’m sorry about that, Bob. (And the “mod flag” has been cleared so your future messages should just go to the list.)

Second, with all the great conversations on this list lately, there have been several messages being put in the moderation queue and flagged as "sent to the list by non-subscribers". It's turned out in multiple cases that people are sending to the list from other email addresses. Mail clients, particularly on mobile phones, seem to make this very easy to do these days.

If you send a message to the list and it doesn’t appear quickly or you get a moderation message, please check your sending address to be sure it is the one you are subscribed from.

Regards,
Dan

P.S. As another approach, if you often find yourself sending from different addresses, I do see that there are a couple of people who have subscribed to the list from two addresses, but then gone into the Mailman settings and set one of the accounts to not receive any messages. This does allow sending from either address but receiving in only one inbox.

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