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That's interesting, I used to be able to post from my work address, is this still possible? I couldn't post from my Webmail which was my home address BUT I was unsubbed at the time.... Keith Top Notch Restorations topnotch@nycap.rr.com 71 Squareback 65 Notchback "El Baja Rojo" 65 Squareback "Eggcrate" 87 golf "Winterat" 93 RX7 "Redstur" -----Original Message----- From: Greg Merritt [mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org] Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 12:41 PM To: type3@vwtype3.org Subject: Re: [T3] funky list glitch fixed -- attention newer subscribers! On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Jim Adney wrote: > roster of allowed posters. Was that something you added to minimize spam > problems? Yes -- but it has been in place for years now, actually. The general case for a list is that there is no restriction regarding who can post. The rule that I invoked some time back is that only recipients can post. Another possibility is to have separate subscriber and allowed-poster rosters. This is commonly done for newsletters. In fact, these rosters are one and the same, but appear as separately-named files that are actually hardlinked to one another. Any change to one makes a change to the other. It's not an alias; it's more of a joined-at-the-hip sort of thing. At some point, the hardlink broke. (It's possible that the host transferred account files to a different disk or machine, and that the link was broken.) When this happened, the two files each took on lives of their own. So, the allowed-posters roster became stagnant, and didn't "learn" of new subscribers. However, new members could subscribe and receive the list messages. Now I've re-established the hardlink, so that these two files again do what we want them to do as far as the list is concerned. -Greg ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~