[USML Announce] Greetings

[Richard Robbins]

I am giving very serious consideration to petitioning for reinstatement
next year.

On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Rick Gammons <ricklgammons at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks, Rich.  Will it do any good to start a campaign to get you back in
> the league next year?
>    Rick
>
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 11:35 AM, Richard Robbins via announce <
> announce at usml.net> wrote:
>
>> Hello Friends,
>>
>> I wanted you to know that I'm still around and from time to time focus a
>> little bit on mailing list and web site (usml.net that is) admin issues.
>>
>> The problem that we've seen for a few years with handling of aol and
>> perhaps yahoo email to the announcement list is somewhat complicated.  As
>> many of you have observed, mail from these ISPs gets mapped to spam,
>> particularly by google based mail readers, no matter what you do.
>>
>> I've been talking to Jeff and Mark B about things we might do to solve
>> it.  So far, the alternatives I've been exploring all involve redeploying
>> the mailing list to another platform.  And even then, it might not work.
>>
>> This morning I did some deeper research on this issue and discovered that
>> it's actually even more complicated than I had imagined.  At core, it has
>> to do with some changes that yahoo and aol made a few years back to deviate
>> from well established internet norms for email.
>>
>> I recognize that some of you are wed to your aol/yahoo addresses and
>> aren't inclined to create a new gmail or other non-aol/non-yahoo  address
>> for league matters.  If you did that and made a point of sending your
>> league email from a non-aol or non-yahoo address things would work.  That's
>> awkward though and it's likely you'd inadvertently use your aol or yahoo
>> account at some point to post to the list.  But to be clear, the problem is
>> with aol and yahoo.
>>
>> Aol and yahoo email users should know that this problem can crop up with
>> a variety of email readers so even if we solve this problem for the
>> usml.net list you will likely run into it in other areas. People will
>> not reliably get your messages as they should.  Besides, aol and yahoo
>> email accounts are so antiquated -- and not in a cool/hip/retro way.  Do
>> you really want to advertise how old you are? Aren't your kids
>> embarrassed?  Not that I'm hinting you dump those email accounts . .
>> . Heck, we should just dump email and move to SnapChat or something like
>> that, but I can't figure those things out either and my kids won't let me
>> know what's really in anyways -- because as soon as I join the party it's
>> deemed lame.
>>
>> Just this morning I learned of a few changes I can make to the mailing
>> list software we use, somewhat deep in the bowels of the system, that might
>> help.  Then again, other stuff might break.
>>
>> I just tweaked one setting as an experiment.
>>
>> Let's see how things go.  If that doesn't help we can ponder other
>> possibilities.
>>
>> I'm glad you all enjoyed a great draft and hope that the season is
>> terrific fun for all.
>>
>> -- Rich
>>
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