[EL] IMPORTANT Election Law listserv housekeeping item

[Rick Hasen]

List members,

We have been having trouble in recent weeks with some subscriptions to 
the listserv.  The problem is mainly for people with *AOL and Yahoo* 
addresses but we also have had intermittent problems with people with 
addresses from *MSN, Hotmail, Comcast, and FEC.gov*.  If you have one of 
these addresses, read on.

I don't fully understand the technical details but here's my best try. 
Thanks to changes in settings at the servers running the email addresses 
above, some of the servers have been treating some email messages coming 
from the election law listserv as spam. In response, those servers are 
generating error messages which are bouncing some people with these 
addresses off the listserv---or at least making it impossible for some 
list members with these addresses to post.

There are no good solutions right now on our end.  We could change a 
setting which would result in the "sender" of the email being the 
listserv rather than the listserv member's name.  This would make it 
hard to identify the sender of messages.  That's not a viable solution. 
So any solution will have to come from your end.

If you want to avoid this problem, you could have email for the list 
sent to a different email address. (You can use the email sent on the 
first of each month with instructions on how to modify your subscription 
to change your email to this new address.  There is no need to 
unsubscribe and resubscribe to the list.)

Another possible workaround is to set up a free email account (say with 
Google, which has not yet had this problem).  You could make this your 
listserv subscription address. You could set those emails to forward 
messages to your old account.  One problem with this is that when you 
post to the list you would have to post from the new address.

When we see a flurry of bounced email subscriptions we are manually 
adding those people back to the list and will continue to do so. But 
some of you may fall through the cracks and you will need to keep an eye 
if listserv messages suddenly stop appearing in your inbox.  If that 
happens please check in with me.

I am sorry for this inconvenience.  If we develop a technical solution 
on our end I will let you know.

Rick

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Rick Hasen
Chancellor's Professor of Law and Political Science
UC Irvine School of Law
401 E. Peltason Dr., Suite 1000
Irvine, CA 92697-8000
949.824.3072 - office
949.824.0495 - fax
rhasen at law.uci.edu
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http://electionlawblog.org

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