This has been a rough week in some ways. I'm still struggling with a cold although it is mostly the coughing now. My desktop computer at home is not working and I can't figure out why. In the meantime I'm having to use the laptop and that isn't as easy to type on.
But compared to a lot of people's problems, I can count many blessings, so enough grousing and complaining.
Yesterday and this morning have been much colder than usual. The sun is shining this morning and it looks pretty.
Back in 2000, I started a list on Yahoo Groups called BakingMixes, for recipes for Bisquick-type mixes and recipes using those mixes. In 2001 I deleted one of my email accounts and didn't realize that it would also cancel my owner/moderator privileges on that BakingMixes list. I tried to contact Yahoo to see how I could solve the problem but never got a response from them. So for the past 8 years I have been unable to control the list and it had deteriorated to spam being posted daily without me being able to stop it.
Finally the other day I contacted Yahoo again. It took 4 or 5 messages back and forth to get them to fully understand my problem, but finally they transferred ownership of the list to my current email address and I was able to exercise control over it again. I immediately "cleaned house". I deleted all of the inappropriate messages in the archives and put everyone on moderation. In that way I will be able to approve or delete any messages before they get published.
I also deleted all members whose messages were bouncing or who were signed up as "Special Notices only". I went from 139 members to 31 and am now ready to try to rebuild the list in the way I originally meant for it to be.
If anyone who happens to read this wants to check it out, just send a blank email message to bakingmixes-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
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