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How can I change my subscription settings online?
Help - I've forgotten my password!
Why am I suddenly receiving the list in digest form? I'm sure I didn't do it myself.
When I try to send a picture file as an attachment, it doesn't come through. What can I do about it?
What has happened to my lovely formatting?
Why aren't my posts reaching the list, even though I'm receiving other Gunroom messages?
I'm not getting any messages at all. What's happened? What should I do?
How can I change my subscription settings via e-mail?
How can I get more help?
How can I change my subscription settings online?
You can change your subscription settings by visiting our Gunroom member options login page. Enter your subscription e-mail address and your list password at the top of the page. Then you will reach the "Gunroom mailing list membership configuration" page for your e-mail address.
Help - I've forgotten my password!
You can get a password reminder at our Mailman information page. Enter your subscription e-mail address in the box at the very bottom of the page and click on the "Unsubscribe or edit options" button. On the next page, in the "Forgotten Your Password?" section, click on the "Email My Password To Me" button.
Why am I suddenly receiving the list in digest form? I'm sure I didn't do it myself.
You probably let your mailbox fill up. When a lissun's mail account fills up, any incoming messages are bounced back to the sender. In the case of list messages, the list admins get copies of the bounced messages. This can flood our mailboxes.
In order to reduce the flood, we set the bouncing accounts to digest. This has the added benefit of reducing the number of missed messages to the full mailboxes.
To restore your account to normal, see the earlier section How can I change my subscription settings online? to get to the "Gunroom mailing list membership configuration" page. Then set "Set Digest Mode" to "No" in "Your Gunroom Subscription Options".
When I try to send a picture file as an attachment, it doesn't come through. What can I do about it?
The Mailman software is set to strip all attachments. Pictures intended for the list's enjoyment can be uploaded to the Gunroom's short term gallery page.
What has happened to my lovely formatting?
The Mailman software is set to convert all messages to plain text. Your HTML formatting will be lost.
Why aren't my posts reaching the list, even though I'm receiving other Gunroom messages?
To ward off spammers, we have made this a closed list; only subscribers may post. If you are having trouble posting, you may be subscribed under a different address than the one by which you receive mail. Get help from a real person at gunroom-owners[at]hmssurprise[dot]org.
If you have a Gmail account, be aware that Gmail automatically and irrevocably deletes from your inbox the version of your message sent back from the server, considering it a duplicate of the message that you sent out. You will find copies of your message in your "Sent" and "All mail" folders. If someone replies to your message, the whole message thread will then appear in your inbox.
I'm not getting any messages at all. What's happened? What should I do?
If you haven't gotten any Gunroom messages for some considerable time, the list may be down. When the list goes down, the list administrators are usually aware of it fairly quickly. Chances are, they are already working on the problem.
You might want to check the internal archives to see if there has been any traffic that you alone haven't received. If this is the case, request help from the list administrators at gunroom-owners[at]hmssurprise[dot]org
Another possibility is that your ISP has declared the Gunroom's host a SPAM-generator and blacklisted us. When this happens the list administrators receive "bounce" messages, informing us of the fact. We then try to notify the affected lissun to help rectify the problem.
How can I change my subscription settings via e-mail?
E-mail gunroom-request[at]hmssurprise[dot]org with the word "help" (no quotes) in the body of the e-mail. This will return an information e-mail, which includes a list of commands that you can then send by e-mail. You must send the "help" command or any other commands to gunroom-request[at]hmssurprise[dot]org not gunroom[at]hmssurprise[dot]org (which will spam the whole list with them).
How can I get more help?
If you need help from a real person, send an e-mail to: gunroom-owners[at]hmssurprise[dot]org