Helen Borrie wrote:

> This list isn't a newsgroup. It gets mirrored to a newsgroup. There are
> various reasons why messages get dropped. Except for the one that happens
> occasionally -- the newsgroup mirror server is down -- individual users
> lose their messages because they have crossed a "bounce threshold" with the
> Yahoo MAIL LIST server. If your email address bounces list messages more
> than a certain number of times, the Yahoo server puts your account "on ice"
> and you have to go to your yahoo account and reactivate it yourself. As
> Moderator, I don't have any control over it.
>
> It's really up to you to ensure that your pop account doesn't bounce list
> messages. Yahoo used to re-try for five days, but they stopped doing that
> about a year ago and started counting bounces instead.
>
> Naturally, if you post a message from an email address that is not the one
> you have set up in your yahoo account for receiving messages, then that
> message won't bounce, it will just disappear.

I am using a yahoo email account and I don't believe I have experienced
any problems with bouncing list messages. However, I'm not a member of
the ib-support Yahoo group. That could be the reason. I just joined
now... will confirm if I can now see my own messages at news.atkin.com.

Note that I can always see my messages at Yahoo Groups, but it never
shows up in the news.atkin.com news server.