wheel wrote: > I seem to have a natural knack for hitting the ruts around here, which > is exciting. I've tried to subscribe to the list using both yahoo and > gmail email accounts and the webform always reports "The email address > you entered does not appear to be valid." I would like to use either > yahoo or gmail because I am very interested in keeping spam down on my > main email accounts (see Jan 7 2006 thread 'E-mail harvesting on PG > lists?'). I've been posting via a newsreader but it seems that there is > some strange pattern with messages not making it on the the list using > that pipe...all of my posts show on the google archive of this list but > a good number (25%?) seem to be missing from the mailing list archives > that are found on the postgres site. Example, it seems that both of my > responses to Scott Marlowe never made it to the list, but are somehow > listed in google, and on the newsgroup. Scott was PO'd that I didn't > respond to his first post, that got me to check into why he didn't. > > I posted about this issue, the failure of the website subscription form > to accept (at least) an @yahoo.com email acct, and no one replied > (though that was one of the posts that didnt' seem to make it onto the > mailing list, but is on google & newsgroup). Can someone tell me what > the secret is, or check the webform at postgresql.org and make sure it's > in order? I did see your previous email but thought you must have been doing something wrong. Going to: http://www.postgresql.org/community/lists/subscribe and entering my gmail address worked, and I tried a username that contained a period, and that worked too. Interestingly, I can't find your previous email that I saw in our archives, or in google archives. What email address where you trying? -- Bruce Momjian bruce@xxxxxxxxxx EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +
