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Bright Blessings
Sandie
List Administrator
This may be of interest to someone on the list.
Bright Blessings
Sandie
Hi Sandie and Jan
I've been talking to Rod Neep of Archive CD Books about his scanning the
Cambridgeshire 1861 census to CD as part of his ongoing project and as
he feels uncertain of how well it would sell and cover the costs
involved he won't commit to doing it until interest is sufficient.
It occurred to me that there may be others like me, who would love to
obtain a copy of the scanned census for Cambridgeshire on CD, and
wondered if you could perhaps consider publicising the idea through your
lists and see if enough people would register an interest to encourage
Rod to add this to his project file?
I reproduce below copies of the messages from CDBooks-L in which this
has been discussed... as you'll see he needs 100 people to make it
viable - so far 2 of us have said yes.
Any help/support would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks,
--
Cheers,
Anne
This is a general mailout to all of the lists that I administer.
It seems to be that for whatever reason, some subscribers have taken to
'looping' their subscription address. This means that they are forwarding
mail from their subscribed address to another one, then from that one to
another, and so on.
This 'looping' causes major problems and mail bounces all over the place, it
means that for a busy list you are very likely to get unsubbed quite quickly.
It also seems to be that some subscribers servers are detecting this
'looping' and Daemon is intercepting and rejecting some of their mail
thinking that it is spam.
There has also been a tendency of late of spammers to subscribe to a list
under one address and 'looping' it back to several in an attempt to spam a
list. This is NOT NICE. Any subscriber that I think is resorting to this
technique will be placed on the reject list. I might point out here that the
headers of emails identify the server as well as the addresses through which
mail is 'looped'.
As of today (16th August) any address that bounces messages back as a result
of 'looping' will be automatically unsubscribed.
Another thing that can cause a problem for the list is the 'spam filter' that
some subscribers have taken to downloading off the net over the passed few
months. The irony of this is that that same spam protector the 'spams' you
address book which includes mailing lists... I have made the decision that
any subscribed address that posts a message to the list notifying subscribers
that they have a spam filter attached to their mailbox will be not be
permitted to post messages to the list.
May I make the suggestion that if some people wish to protect their privacy
by 'looping' from one address to the other that you think about using a free
web based mail address in preference to your own personal private address.
This will also assist in reducing the amount of spam mail that you receive in
that inbox.
It is unfortunate that I now have to take this kind of action and it is one
of several measures that I have had to take in the last few weeks to reduce
the huge amount of bounced emails to my mailbox.
Good luck with your research.
Bright blessings
Sandie
List Administrator