Re: Bouncing E-mail

[Guest guest]

Here's the link to customer care:

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/groups/original/general.html

But I think Dorothy would have to ask the question as the moderator to see if

it's possible for Yahoo to change the group attributes to give her ownership. I

don't think they will do this. They may be able see if 's email is active

but may not provide this information either for 's protection. Maybe they

can " unbounce " her? At the very least they could probably give suggestions.

MaC

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[Guest guest]

Every once in awhile Yahell, oops yahoo I mean LOL randomly picks members on

different groups to ' bounce' this helps them weed out spammers & automated

replies.

Its nothing personal, you just got picked this time, its happened to me

several times. I belong to several groups ( own one, moderater on 2) so yes, you

do have to check if your not receiving your emails.

Dorothy could try the moderator HELP section she ll see at the top of the

group home page to try to straighten her owner problem.

hope this helps

tilly

Dennis wrote:

Hi to everyone...In going through my e-mail tonight, I realized that

it had been a while since I received a message from the group. I

normally get every post shortly after it goes online. And while this

group sometimes " goes quiet, " I recalled that it had become pretty

busy recently so I was puzzled.

When I went to the group site, I found a lot of recent posts--none of

which I had received. I checked further and discovered that I wasn't

receiving posts any longer because my e-mail had been " bouncing " for

almost two weeks. I think I fixed it (I just received a message from

Yahoo saying " If you receive this then all is well " or something like

that).

I have absolutely no idea why my e-mail would bounce (it's like

having a letter come back with " return to sender " on it). I've had

the same e-mail address for the last seven years...even staying with

msn when I have a gmail account and, as a result of my DSL

connection, a Bell South address as well.

Some quick thoughts: First, we probably all should check from time-

to-time to be sure that posts from our groups are not bouncing,

especially if we haven't had one for a while.

Second, one of the last posts I actually received was from Dorothy

discussing that while she was the moderator, she was not the

owner...and that e-mail to (believe that's the name of the

owner) was bouncing. While may have moved on to another

address, it's also very possible that she did not. As long as Yahoo

has determined that an address is " invalid " there's not much to do on

our end. would need to " reactivate " her account...but that

assumes she realizes it's not working.

Again, the frustration is that she, like me, may have done nothing.

I have absolutely no idea why my mail from Yahoo bounced. Believe

me, no one else's did...and there are many I wish would be " returned

to sender. "

Finally, I wonder if there is not some way that we can get Yahoo to

recognize that we have an " absentee " owner and, therefore, replace

her. Surely Yahoo must have had this happen before. It seems unfair

to ask Dorothy to be the moderator, but then to limit exactly what

she can do. I don't know the process to change this or even where to

start but I would support such a change.

Looks as if I have a lot of posts to go through...will try to do some

of that tonight and more tomorrow.

Take care,

Dennis

love ya

[Guest guest]

Yahoo will not make a person an owner of a list. This is a constant topic of

conversation on the Yahoo moderators/owners discussion group. Our group is

by no means unique in having an " absentee owner " . Many groups have similar

concerns, and Yahoo just doesn't want to run lists. I think we can

understand that the time it would take a Yahoo sys admin to handle this sort

of request is not worth it for Yahoo since this is, after all, a free

service.

The remedy is to start a new list and invite everyone to join it. I've

chosen not to do that for this group since I think that would be onerous for

the folks here who need the group most.

If the rest of you feel comfortable with a new group, I'll happily set it

up, solicit a co-owner and a couple mods, and we can have a little better

control over things (e.g., new members, now messages archive). I'll bow to

the general consensus.

Cheers!

Dorothy