FIRST Email Blast Mailing List now available!

[65_Xero_Huskie]

When people reply to these messages, they get sent to other people on the list. I got 5 messages and they were all replys fromt he e-mail. Is there a way to not do that? and i suggest that everyone not reply to those e-mails.

[KTorak]

Originally Posted by 65_Xero_Huskie

When people reply to these messages, they get sent to other people on the list. I got 5 messages and they were all replys fromt he e-mail. Is there a way to not do that? and i suggest that everyone not reply to those e-mails.

As seen in my post (a few back) I already brought up the issue and it is being worked on.

[Eldarion]

To those who are wondering why they are not getting blasts anymore (as of 02/07/07):

For some reason FIRST has removed me from their list
I have sent a couple of Emails to the general contact address, but have not yet gotten any response. Maybe someone from FIRST will look out here and see this post (and fix the problem).

My Email server had gone on the fritz for a while (specifically my secondary DNS server had failed), so I wonder if FIRST got a hard bounce or two?

Once again, I apologize for any incovenience that this may cause.

Eldarion

[Eldarion]

All right, it looks like everything is back up and happily humming again. If you are not receiving blasts, please let me know.

[KathieK]

I received a bunch of old blasts in my Inbox tonight - did the system "hiccup" or something?

[Jon236]

Originally Posted by KathieK

I received a bunch of old blasts in my Inbox tonight - did the system "hiccup" or something?

Kathy,

same thing happened to me....then I received an email with SUBSCRIBE_FRC_RELAY in the subject line

can anyone shed any light on this?

[Bharat Nain]

Originally Posted by Jon236

Kathy,

same thing happened to me....then I received an email with SUBSCRIBE_FRC_RELAY in the subject line

can anyone shed any light on this?

I emailed FIRST and hopefully they will reply. I had the exact same thing happen to me.

[Eldarion]

That was me. We had a power outage yesterday, the UPS systems on the servers overloaded and failed. Long story short, the Email server went down and something odd happened that forced a lot of old garbage through, broadcasting it to everyone in the list! I had about 12 hours of work to do on the servers in order to get them running again; it was not fun.

The UPS systems have been upgraded so that this sort of thing shouldn't happen in the future.

Sorry for the problems, and if you notice anything else odd about the Emails, please let me know! I don't know exactly how much damage was done to the Email setup.

Tim

[KathieK]

Yes, and I'm also receiving a bunch of e-mails that are undeliverable from "postmaster at pearsoncomputing.net" as though I were sending them out. Sounds like the same earlier issues mentioned in this thread are re-surfacing again.

[Eldarion]

I sincerely apologize for the problems. Due to the power outage some critical settings were wiped, and I do not have the time to set the Email blast server up right now. Therefore, I have simply shut it down so that you will not have to endure more spam.

If I decide to reactivate the list at a later date, I will post a message here.

Tim