[tccrockets] Re: Chat and posting
- From: James Dougherty <jafrado@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "tccrockets@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <tccrockets@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 07:35:05 -0800
Bruce
No problem; sounds great!
Thank you and see you tomorrow!
-James
Sent from my iPhone
> On Feb 20, 2015, at 7:28 AM, Bruce Rohn <bhrohn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi James its Bruce-
>
> I forgot to tell you that a gentleman from 4-H contacted me this past week
> and would like to bring about 10 kids to our Saturday lauch. They don't plan
> to launch
> anything, they just want to come and watch and see how things go so that next
> time they would bring rockets to launch.
>
> That's all. I will be out there tomorrow to help certify flights, or just
> anything else that we need help with.
>
> I apologize for giving you this information late.
>
> -Bruce
>
>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:05 AM, James Dougherty <jafrado@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> A lot of people have been complaining that the chat doesn't work and/or
>> their messages don't get through.
>> The other complaints I've heard is that it unsubscribes you randomly and
>> your messages bounce.
>> I've been watching the action for the last 6 months and here's what I've
>> found:
>>
>> 1) Chat doesn't work
>> - Every case I have seen so far is an operator error, the most common one
>> is this - using 2 email addresses!
>>
>> For example, people have signed up for freelists using one email address
>> (e.g. jafrado@xxxxxxxxx) and
>> then they post using a different machine and email address (e.g.
>> jfd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
>>
>> What happens in this case is that the email will bounce
>> (jfd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is not register)!
>>
>> What is happening is that when you sign up for the chat, you provide an
>> email address to the mail-server
>> which it authenticates (by sending you a confirmation email) and then when
>> you post, it checks its internal
>> database to see if there is a match in the From: field of the email you
>> sent. If they don't match, then it rejects
>> the email.
>>
>> So, the simple solution to this one is two options:
>>
>> - Register the email address you plan to use for list email and use that
>> computer mail-client - no issues.
>>
>> OR
>>
>> - Register all of your email addresses that you use, and you can post from
>> any one interchangably.
>>
>> 2) Chat unsubscribes me
>>
>> - People who use @aol.com and @rr.com email addresses a lot of times get
>> hacked. Either that or the AOL
>> or RR mail-servers get hacked an a large volume of spam mail hits the chat
>> from a user which the system
>> knows about (e.g. is registered). The Freelists server takes care of this by
>> recognizing the hack attack and
>> then auto-matically unsubcribing the user and sending them email. In most
>> cases, most of the email you get
>> is lost (including the unsubscription email).
>>
>>
>> Anyhow, that's the story so far, people who have posted to the chat and have
>> not seen a reply and/or their message
>> should check the From: field in their email against what they have
>> registered on freelists.org
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -James
>
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