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From: Marilyn Symonds <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Problem with swbell (Yahoo) or Rootsweb
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:26:52 -0600
References: <AANLkTimnAhv=eMjgHhWwV9fh8+2wDXcgm+SoGWD1KNqk@mail.gmail.com><201101192057.p0JKvqgi029897@mail.rootsweb.com>
In-Reply-To: <201101192057.p0JKvqgi029897@mail.rootsweb.com>


Thank you, Lee, for the information. I am now subscribed to the list
via gmail as you see. Yahoo support has not responded to my requests
to address the problem, and I'm trying now to minimize my exposure.

Marilyn

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Lee Hoffman <> wrote:
> Marilyn Symonds wrote:
>>I have not received TMG mail for several days, and after a check, the
>>sub no longer appears on my rootsweb list of subs, even after an
>>attempt to resubscribe. After the attempt, I did not receive a welcome
>>message or any other to the swbell.net address. I resubbed on this
>>gmail address and have received the welcome from rootsweb - but no
>>other TMG messages. Is there a problem with the rootsweb server which
>>handles TMG traffic?
>
> No, the RootsWeb.com server (at least the one for this list) is
> fine.  The problem is your ISP (an others associated with ATT) is
> blocking mail from RootsWeb.com.  About one hundred subscribers have
> bounced off this list in the past few days.
>
> The interesting thing is that I believe that Yahoo.com handles e-mail
> for many (most? all?) ATT ISP domains.  But, so far, no Yahoo.com
> addresses have bounced off.
>
> In any case, until the blockage is removed, those having ATT domains
> (and there are about eight or ten) cannot subscribe (or they will be
> immediate bounced back off).
>
>
>
> Lee Hoffman/KY
> TMG Tips:    <http://www.tmgtips.com>;
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> A user of the best genealogy program, The Master Genealogist (TMG)
>
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