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  Re: News-by-Mail Subscriptions (Sat 24 Jun 2006)
 
(...) snip (...) Just happened to notice, years 2007-2009 appear to have no subscribers for immediate emails, so when you view the list on the web, the leading spaces are trimmed, and symbols don't align correctly. Probably the best solution would (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Are you missing news-by-mail digests/forwards?
 
(...) Okay, it appears I misunderstood you to that extent. Sorry about that. Then again, the issue is still, that mailing lists as a standard use the original From: address (which is you) but change the Reply-To field to the mailing list itself. I (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Are you missing news-by-mail digests/forwards?
 
"Gereon "Jerry" Stein" <jerry@lugnet.com> wrote in message news:J1B9D9.nvx@lugnet.com... (...) The problem is that I post via the web and don't want to receive ANY posts via email, I prefer the newsreader client to do that. (...) I strongly (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Are you missing news-by-mail digests/forwards?
 
(...) This is usually due to recipients not caring about the "reply-to" field. As a subscriber, you can select whether the posts you receive via email should include the original poster or rather the newsgroup-address in the reply-to field. The (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Are you missing news-by-mail digests/forwards?
 
"Gereon "Jerry" Stein" <jerry@lugnet.com> wrote in message news:J1A7Bq.J9L@lugnet.com... (...) One issue I've had in the past with, as an example, has been posting to the lugnet.robotics newsgroup, and then getting spammed by the recipient whenever (...) (18 years ago, 22-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: This is it: We're moving!
 
(...) Thanks, I did not expect old ones to show up just from now on. Bruce (18 years ago, 22-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: This is it: We're moving!
 
Hi again, apparently the script doing the news2mail conversion was broken. I managed to call it from the command line and found the error. It works now, however only for new posts - I am afraid there is no reasonable way to resend posts that (...) (18 years ago, 22-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Are you missing news-by-mail digests/forwards?
 
Hi all, this is in reply to all mails I received regarding news2mail subscriptions (i.e. newsgroup subscriptions as direct delivery via email - not digests, those seem to have worked all the time): I have found the error, repaired the script and (...) (18 years ago, 22-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: This is it: We're moving!
 
(...) Bruce, this is what I meant with my other posts, that I would like to know of anyone currently not receiving his mail subscriptions. Apparently only the direct mail function is affected, whereas the digest function works as intended. I am (...) (18 years ago, 22-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: This is it: We're moving!
 
(...) Jerry, I subscribe to a large number of news groups and have not received any email since the switch. Going to LUGNET I find my postings that I should of gotten. Can you fix this? Thanks, Bruce (18 years ago, 22-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Important: Index rebuild under way and some other issues
 
(...) Once the ports are finalised it would be worth updating this page. (URL) (18 years ago, 22-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Important: Index rebuild under way and some other issues
 
"Mike Walsh" <mike_walsh@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:J18LK0.GDB@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) [ ... snipped ... ] Caught the other post about the ports, I have switched back to 8080 and am now able to connect from work. Mike (18 years ago, 22-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Important: Index rebuild under way and some other issues
 
Mike Walsh schrieb: (...) Hi Mike, I have enabled both port 8000 and 8080 (due to other user requests) for NNTP. We are now monitoring port usage and will decide later on, which one of these two is going to stay. Currently it's about 50:50, so the (...) (18 years ago, 22-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Important: Index rebuild under way and some other issues
 
"Gereon "Jerry" Stein" <gereon@zweistein.de> wrote in message news:J13wDy.AuC@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) Well, I was definitely using port 8080, yet another undocumented port? (...) Nope. Using Outlook Express for NNTP access. (...) As (...) (18 years ago, 22-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: User Password
 
(...) Thanks a bunch Rene. Sean (18 years ago, 21-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: User Password
 
(...) Hi Sean, you should have received your new password via email a few minutes ago. -René (18 years ago, 21-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Are you missing news-by-mail digests/forwards?
 
Hi all, I have received reports, that news-by-mail was not entirely functional. According to the logs it appears, digests do get sent out, but I cannot easily identify if all subscribers do get updated with what they subscribed for. Can you please (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)  
 
  Re: Some minor issues fixed...
 
...and on a less important side note, I am now reachable through an official LUGNET mail address. Regards, Jerry (18 years ago, 21-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Some minor issues fixed...
 
Hi all, I realized this morning that parts of the news posting and news to mail subscription signup as well als the password change pages did not work correctly. These pages are now fixed, so you should be able to sign up for posting/subscriptions (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: User Password
 
(...) Hi Sean, please email me at rene@lugnet.com, Thanks, René (18 years ago, 21-Jun-06, to lugnet.admin.general)


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