I thought Rahul helped Cara. Perhaps we need to know who is moderating the list these days.
Kawal. On 30 Sep 2013, at 03:51 PM, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote: > In March I offered to help Cara with managing the join requests for the list > as she was having a hard time keeping up. I'm usually on email every day > (although not so much on weekends) so most approvals happen in a day. As far > as I know there are no pending requests. I am starting to weed out > subscribers whose emails are bouncing. Please let folks know to try again if > they had trouble in the past. I've also manually added folks for which the > regular process didn't seem to be working. One thing I do check is that the > subscription request mention something that sounds like a human who would > care about this list's topic (macs, voiceover, iOS etc). This is just to > prevent spam bots from joining. So blank requests or ones with random text > don't get approved. > > CB > > On 9/29/13 8:25 PM, Alex Hall wrote: >> Any Google Groups subscription address is >> listname+subscr...@googlegroups.com, so yes, that's right. As to why it >> takes so long, I have no clue. I joined twice, once in 2010 and again in >> early 2012 as I recall, and both times the process took a few weeks. I have >> heard stories of it taking six months for some people, though. >> On Sep 29, 2013, at 1:35 PM, Karen Lewellen <klewel...@shellworld.net> wrote: >> >>> Hi Alex. >>> Really? >>> then two questions. Did I put the correct address below so they are in the >>> cue? >>> and second, >>> why is it taking longer these days? >>> Thanks, >>> Kare >>> >>> On Sun, 29 Sep 2013, Alex Hall wrote: >>> >>>> There are, but good luck. It can take weeks to months for the mods, >>>> whoever they are, to approve people. No one can join until that happens, >>>> so people can be stuck waiting for quite a while. >>>> On Sep 29, 2013, at 11:55 AM, Karen Lewellen <klewel...@shellworld.net> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Yes I am already on it lol. >>>>> However on another list there are about 8 people who now wish to join. >>>>> I have been here prior to the google group change so is it. >>>>> macvisionaries+subscr...@googlegroups.com >>>>> to join? >>>>> Thanks >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>> >>>> >>>> Have a great day, >>>> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) >>>> mehg...@gmail.com >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>> >>>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> Have a great day, >> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) >> mehg...@gmail.com >> >> >> > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
