[Genealogy-SIG] Late Messages (genealogy), and others

[Dave Lundy]

Mike Kennedy wrote:
> 
> I am also a newcomer to the Genealogy sig and to emailing on DMA and to 
> DMA members.
>  
> What confuses me is the fact that a message to members of a computer 
> literate organization either gets bounced, even from signed-up members 
> of the sig, or lost altogether, or do not show up for days or weeks.
>  
> Yet normal emails to people not members of this computer literate group 
> show up within minutes or seconds.
>  
> It would appear to me that some reorganization of the groups internal 
> email and contact systems needs to be done or, at the very least, some 
> clear standards, methods or explanations need to be given to everyone.
>  
> Mike


Mike,

I appreciate your concern.  Our mailing lists are configured to reduce
the likelihood of being spammed.  Unfortunately, that does cause some
delay for first-time posters.  Some of that is explained in the list info 
page.  I guess I need to explain more there, or in the message sent to new 
subscribers.

We *have* been having some mail delivery problems on and off during the 
past week, but that's for *all* mail coming into dma.org - not just 
mailing lists.  The problem is being worked on.
-- 
Dave Lundy   <http://www.dma.org/~lundyd/>