Well, my response to Kieran's message, confirming problems posting to
statalist did not go through, and it was in rich formatting. This
message is in plain text.
cheers,
sandu
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Joseph McDonnell <[email protected]> wrote:
> I might be wrong on this but I get the impression that statalist only
> accepts plain text. When I set up my Gmail account, it assumed the
> default "rich formatting" mode and my posts didn't seem to get
> through. I switched to plain text and everything seemed to go as
> desired.
>
> Cheers
>
> Joseph
>
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Kieran McCaul <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Neil commented on my previous "test" email, so I thought I should
>> elaborate on this.
>> Also I notice that from time to time, people sometimes forward a post
>> from another user because that user is "having trouble posting to the
>> list". So perhaps the problem I have been having and how I have resolve
>> it (I hope) may be of some use to others on the list.
>>
>> I've been on the Statalist for over ten years and posted to the list on
>> a semi-regular basis.
>> My last post before the test post was on or about March 15. On the 27
>> March I replied to another post, but my reply did not appear. On 30
>> March I sent a post to the list and, once again, it did not appear.
>>
>> Through all this I continued to receive Statalist posts.
>>
>> I tried contacting Marcello Pagano to see if he could offer any advice,
>> but got no reply - he may be away. Or my email may not have reached
>> him.
>>
>> I next tried unsubscribing and then resubscribing to the list, but
>> although I was emailing to [email protected], I received
>> nothing back from the listserver. This is very strange.
>>
>> I then recalled that some upgrade to Outlook had installed itself
>> earlier, but I couldn't remember exactly when. So I tracked down this
>> "upgrade" and uninstalled it, but I was still not able to post to the
>> list.
>>
>> On Wednesday this week, I again tried unsubscribing to the list and this
>> time it worked. The message I received back was not exactly what I
>> expected however:
>>
>> ---------
>>
>>>>>> unsubscribe statalist [email protected]
>> Your request to [email protected]:
>>
>> unsubscribe statalist [email protected]
>>
>> has been forwarded to the owner of the "statalist" list for approval.
>> This could be for any of several reasons:
>>
>> You might have asked to subscribe to a "closed" list, where all new
>> additions must be approved by the list owner.
>>
>> You might have asked to subscribe or unsubscribe an address other
>> than
>> the one that appears in the headers of your mail message.
>>
>> When the list owner approves your request, you will be notified.
>> ---------
>>
>> So this was very strange: my email address on the list was not the same
>> as the email address on the header.
>>
>> So now I tried to get a list of members of the Statalist:
>> -----------
>>>>>> who statalist
>> **** List 'statalist' is a private list.
>> **** Only members of the list can do a 'who'.
>> **** You [ "Kieran McCaul" <[email protected]> ] aren't a member
>> of list 'statalist'.
>>>>>>
>> -------------
>> I have two email addresses at my university. This is not new, I have
>> always had these two addresses, but it now appears that on email headers
>> [email protected] is now appearing whereas in the past
>> [email protected] had been used.
>>
>> So I thought I had resolved the issue by changing the email under which
>> I am subscribed and this seemed to be the case because my "test" email
>> got through. However I replied to Neil's post this morning (from home)
>> and it didn't get through.
>>
>> What is also not unresolved is the non-response I got from the
>> listserver when I originally tried to unsubscribe. I suppose it's
>> possible that the server may have been down at the time I sent my email
>> to it.
>>
>> Anyway I am now sending this directly (also from home). If it doesn't
>> get through I still have a problem. If it does get through, I can't
>> explain why my reply to Neil didn't also get through.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ______________________________________________
>> Kieran McCaul MPH PhD
>> WA Centre for Health & Ageing (M573)
>> University of Western Australia
>> Level 6, Ainslie House
>> 48 Murray St
>> Perth 6000
>> Phone: (08) 9224-2140
>> Fax: (08) 9224 8009
>> email: [email protected]
>> http://myprofile.cos.com/mccaul
>> http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-8751-2008
>> ______________________________________________
>> Epidemiology is so beautiful and provides such an important perspective
>> on human life and death,
>> but an incredible amount of rubbish is published. Richard Peto (2007)
>>
>>
>>
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