[Vwdiesel] Lee & others , subscription errors + OT content

[dieseltdi at earthlink.net]

on 4/5/03 6:49 AM, Mike & Coreen Smith at ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca wrote:

> Lee,
>
> Thanks,
> The problem is;
> You go to the webpage, put in your email addr and password---no problem so
> far.
> You get an email back right away saying to confirm your subscription---no
> problem.
> You THEN get an error email back from the mailer-daemon @ vwfans.com
> The reason (AFAICT) is that when you reply to vwdiesel-request at vwfans.com
> (like you're instructed to) it won't work.
> Someone suggested to me (sorry, I forget who, to give you proper credit) to
> reply to vwdiesel-request at audifans.com
> and, voila! it worked perfectly.  Nobody would think to do this, so I am
> surprised you would have ANY new members at all, since whenever this has
> been happening ! !
>
> The only reason I was able to sign up, is I went searching through the
> archives, emailed a dozen of you and some kind soul replied with this
> method.
> Emails to dans at whatever went unanswered !
>
> How many other folks have wanted to sign up but got frustrated (rightly so)
> because their subscription got denied, through some glitch which is so
> easily fixed with 30seconds of changing "vwfans.com" to "audifans.com" (both
> on the site and the return email the automatic mailer robot sends you)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike ve9aa, yes I am a HAM operator, hi  hi! 73
Mike it was I who solved your problem.  Those of us that have been on the
list for some time discovered the problem when we migrated from vwfans to
audifans.  Don't know why the list manager hasn't fixed the problem.  Your
right though, how many people have tried to sign up but become frustrated
because it didn't work.  LIST ADMINISTRATOR ARE YOU LISTENING?  Hayden

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