Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 16:02:25 -0800 From: Micah <micahjon@ywave.com> To: Bob Willson <jeremywillson@yahoo.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Difficulty asking questions Message-ID: <43C99111.7060503@ywave.com> In-Reply-To: <20060114231917.40713.qmail@web80905.mail.scd.yahoo.com> References: <20060114231917.40713.qmail@web80905.mail.scd.yahoo.com>
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Bob Willson wrote: > --- Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> wrote: > >> At 9:29 AM +1100 1/15/06, Bob Willson wrote: >>> Hello >>> >>> I have been trying to ask questions of this forum >> for >>> some time now but my questions seem to vanish into >> the >>> wild blue ether. :( >>> >>> It is possible that my ISP has been blacklisted for >>> this forum, how do I tell? My usual address (and >> the >>> one which I registered) is: >>> jwillson@brisbane.apana.org.au >>> >>> I am sending this through a Yahoo email address to >> see >>> if this works. >> If it helps, I did see this message of yours from >> the >> freebsd-questions mailing list. I usually just skim >> through this mailing list though, so I have no idea >> if >> if your previous messages (from some other address?) >> also made it through. >> >> It is true that this list is busy enough that >> questions >> can get lost. Which is to say, everyone *receives* >> the >> message, but no one actually replies to it simply >> because >> they're too busy with other things. > OK, thanks for the replies > I did get this through the Yahoo mail address on the > web interface. > I have checked all my settings on the > freebsd-questions web page as well and they are all > correct. > I get the two or three daily reports FROM the forum, > but I just don't seem able to post TO it. Any ideas > why not? >> -- >> Garance Alistair Drosehn = >> gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu >> Senior Systems Programmer or >> gad@freebsd.org >> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or >> drosih@rpi.edu >> I had the same problem, I could receive I just couldn't send to /any/ freebsd.org list. I can't track down the emails right now, but I believe it was either postmaster@freebsd.org or freebsd-questions-owner@ who helped me figure out that my ISP had DNS issues. With his help I emailed my ISP support line and they fixed their problem (I was surprised!) So you should probably start by emailing one of the address I listed to see if they can help you track down your problem. HTH, Micah
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