Re: posting to dml offtopic

From: mrdancer (mrdancer2@home.your.underwear.com)
Date: Sun Jun 10 2001 - 23:33:23 EDT


I've sent several informative posts to the off-topic newsgroup, but they
never did show up. Oh well, I tried......

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<jon@dakota-truck.net> wrote in message
news:9g0m51$ob2$1@bent.twistedbits.net...
> Andy Levy <andylevy@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> : Jon, the last time (a few weeks ago) I posted to the DMLOT newsgroup my
> : post never appeared.  Do I have to be a member of the Yahoo mailing list
> : to post via the newsgroup?
>
>
>   That could very well be.  For the DML list, I have the program that
> forwards the news posts to the list add a special header which will
> cause it to be posted even if the person isn't a member.  I don't know
> that the off topic list has the same capability.  The yahoo server
> may see its not coming from a member and drop it.  One option though,
> is I think you can sign up to be a member of the off topic list but
> set it so you don't receive any mail.  That should allow you to post
> via the newsgroup without getting the messages duplicated in your mailbox.
>
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