[CH] Some good news... and frustration
Q (fiveqs@earthlink.net)
Thu, 30 Sep 2004 23:18:54 -0500
I've recieved a number of replies from different folks so rather than try to
write responses to all separately thought I would do a combined reply here.
The bottom line is there is apparently no way to get the server to talk to
my verizon account (at least from my end, admin maybe). So an alternative
has been found (see bottom). Don't know if this will help anyone but below
is all the stuff I've tried. At least it helps me blow off a little steam
(and for this I apologize) but this is the kinda thing that just drives me
nuts with frustration, must be the terrier in me. It's just like being
unable to get a piece of software or hardware installed.
Tomorrow I will go out to the garden on a bright, sunny, cool, blue
skied day. Pick a whole mess of the prettiest Tepins, Piquins, DeArbols,
Fatali's and various sorts of Habs. And once again, for a time, my soul will
be at peace, and contentment will return. (well, as long as I can keep that
dang juice from getting under my fingernails again, yow!) Followed by a nice
round of that good ol' gustatory perspiration for lunch :-)
>When you get the message telling you to send the reply to 'majordomo'
IGNORE it. Send the reply back to he same 'request' address that your
original note came from.
I never receive this message. I've sent several commands to the listserver
(chile-heads-request@globalgarden.com not majordomo altho I did try the
majordomo) lists, help etc. and never gotten a response from the server of
any kind.
>Try the other addy and then when you get the authorization code email,
reply the way it says to and you should get the "success" email in the next
couple of days.
I've never recieved the authorization code.
I've tried sending the subscribe fiveqs@verizon.com from four different
addys and got replies from the three non verizon ones saying the auth code
message had been sent to the verizon addy but it never got there. tried
different encoding schemes (uue, mime etc.) Tried sending notes to the
listowner from all four addys and tried changing subject lines to get around
spam filtering and never got a response over about two weeks. turned off all
spam filtering at verizon and tried again. tried a different addy at
verizon. Thought maybe there was some weird formatting with the addresses
involved so tried typing everything in manually, and also tried cutting and
pasting. All these communications were in plain text not rich text/html.
Tried sending in old auth codes that were successful with old accounts with
the verizon addy. Tried using the verizon web mail site as well as the
earthlink site. And on and on and on...very frustrating, I can't even
remember all the things I've tried, I did actually tho, go back to my sent
box and count how many times I tried and it was 81 just from my home
computer.
HOWEVER!!! THE GOOD NEWS!!! I have been able to get a somewhat cheesey
Yahoo mail account and after a few tries (their compose box cuts off the
auth line (you have to have a space then / on the top line to get the
command to succeed)) have gotten subscribed thru there. Kind of awkward and
puts you at their whim but it works! Sooo... I will be able to get the CH
mail, just not thru email.
Man, I better quit before I break a lobe or something, all this thinking and
writing :-)
Take Care!
God Bless!!
PQ