[mplpost] Admin: When messages don't arrive to Maplepost

[Joanne Crabtree]

Gene:  Thanks so much for continuing to look after Maplepost.  Joanne

At 01:37 PM 1/27/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello Mapleposters:
>
>I've seen an increase this past week of two types of problems with posting 
>to Maplepost. Please skim and if you have questions send me a note 
>off-list to gene@wilburn.ca
>
>1. Non-member submissions
>2. Taboo body match
>
>NON-MEMBER SUBMISSIONS
>
>Several this week. If you send a post to Maplepost and it doesn't arrive,
>this may apply to you. The usual problem is that the email address you're
>sending from is not the email address you're subscribed to for Maplepost.  
>We have purposely made this a closed list to prevent the quite sizeable
>amount of spam that gets sent to Maplepost (and rejected) on a daily
>basis.
>
>Maplepost is extremely literal. Your sending email address must match 
>EXACTLY with your subscribed address, or you get rejected. The problem is 
>that you don't receive back a notice telling you you've made a non-member 
>submission. It just disappears into the ether (and into my inbox :-)
>
>Here's a question for the list. Since I see these, would you like me to
>forward any non-member submissions to the address you posted from so you
>can see there's a problem? This won't happen in real time because I don't
>get to my personal and Maplepost email until after 6pm most working days.
>
>TABOO BODY MATCH
>
>This is an ongoing issue and there have been several occurences this week.  
>Maplepost WILL NOT ACCEPT postings in HTML, period. On this one, however,
>you DO get feedback. If you get the following message
>
>	Subject: BOUNCE maplepost@icomm.ca:     taboo body match
>	    "/^content-type:\s.*html/i" at line 152 [or whatever]
>
>this applies to you. It means that you've tried to post a message that
>contains HTML. Here's a link to the fix for most popular email programs:
>
>	http://www.northernjourney.com/cdnfolk/helpdesk/plaintext.html
>
>Sorry to keep bothering the majority of you who are posting with no
>difficulty, but I have to keep repeating this to the list because I don't
>often have the time to work with each incident individually.
>
>Cheers, and back to music,
>
>Gene
>
>-- 
>Gene Wilburn, gene@wilburn.ca
>Northern Journey Online, http://www.NorthernJourney.com
>
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