[Sundaycommunity] Email changes for Sunday community. issues tentatively fixed

[Dwyer Sullivan]

Thank you Art for all this behind the scenes (unknown to most of us) work
on our behalf.
Peace, Dwyer

On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 4:27 PM Arthur Blomme <art at integralshift.ca> wrote:

> Hi Sunday Community
>
> I have managed this email list for close to  15 years now.   When Yahoo
> groups closed down their operations  I created the list server
> integralshift.ca. Like google I offer my list server for free except I
> don't exploit the personal data of participants.  With Google groups and
> with gmail accounts your email is automatically scanned and mined for
> syntactic and semantic structures that are stored in googles massive
> privately owned databases.  This meta information is  used to build
> profiles of each user and includes attitudinal preferences like your
> convincer strategies that can be determined by your grammatical
> preferences.  These profiles are increasingly used to present you with
> information specific to you that  will push your emotional buttons and
> there by control your behaviour.  This hypnotic fuzzy logic can only be
> countered by reason and evidence based dialogue.  As a long time
> practitioner of  the Art and Science of Neuro Linguistic Programming I have
> watched this  behaviourist technology grow.  In the battle between fuzzy
> logic and reason I have chosen reason and human growth. At the same time I
> am aware about how these technologies can be used to control and enslave
> our minds.
>
> When we were first locked down from having our regular Sunday liturgies,
> I recognized the importance of continuing our community in a virtual
> environment. I initiated and continue to use my personal resources to
> maintain the zoom liturgies. * The one thing that I have insisted on with
> the services I provide is freedom of expression and respectful debate of
> differences.*  Democracy cannot exist without freedom of expression.
> Having freedom of expression can get messy but we are far better off than
> in the censored world of 1984 where "*War is peace. Freedom is slavery.
> Ignorance is strength.*" ~ George Orwell
>
>    1. I have been making some tweaks to the list server software to
>    resolve some of the administrative problems.  I believe that the
>    undesirable format of the list messages has now been fixed.  You may want
>    to repost messages that appeared in the .eml format
>    2. A second problem I was dealing with was a problem with cross
>    posting .  When an email message is posted to several lists it creates a
>    problem for list moderators when individuals from other lists try to post
>    to the Sunday Community list.  to avoid this I have limited the number of
>    correspondents  that can appear in the To field of the email.   To avoid
>    having your email deferred to the moderator do not cross post your
>    message.
>    3. Also the list server does not like you to include corespondents in
>    the BCC field.  If you do so ,  you or the administrators will get
>    ‘implicit destination’ message.
>    4. The original problem I was trying to fix  are munging errors
>    received from Bell based email servers.  I may have corrected this problem
>    but only through further error messages can we tell.
>    5. Finally to avoid sending duplicate messages to the Sunday Community
>    only send to one address.   sundaycommunity at integralshift.ca is
>    synonymous with sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca. Pick either
>    address but not both.
>
> I am sorry for any inconvenience these rules create.  i will continue to
> try and resolve problems that arise with the list.  Unfortunately
> documentation is very limited for the software and we have to proceed with
> trial and error.
>
> In soldidarity
>
> Art
>
>
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