[NFBCS] Subscribing to pythonvis at freelists.org

[John J. Boyer]

Hello Nathaniel,

I tried the alternate procedure and received a message asking me to confirm by going to a URL. This brought up a web page that didn't respond in the way you described. 
When I checked the box for agreeing  to the terms of service the page abruptly disappeared and a different one apeared. 
I didn't receive an acknowledgement that I was subscribed and I haven't received any messages from the list.

John

On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 03:46:38PM +1100, Nathaniel Schmidt via NFBCS wrote:
> HI,
> 
> Pythonvis is a legitimate mailing list: I am subscribed to it.  I think the
> problem here is not finding the list, as the outlined process that produced
> the problem indicates that an activation link was sent.  I haven't done it
> for a while, so don't quote me on it.  But potentially the issue could be
> that there is a CAPTCHA that was not solved, or maybe not all of the check
> boxes were checked.  There should be two or three required checkboxes which
> must be checked and then there is the Captcha and I believe there is an
> alternative audio Captcha.
> 
> It was a pretty easy process from memory.  I've done it several times
> without encountering any issues but maybe something has changed relatively
> recently.
> 
> Also, this is probably just a typo but it is *freelists.org*, not frelists.
> 
> An alternative method -- and the one I imagine most people would probably
> use -- is to send an email to pythonvis-request at freelists.org, with the word
> "subscribe" (without quotation marks) in the subject line.
> 
> Nathaniel
> 
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Rayn Darren via
> > NFBCS
> > Sent: Tuesday, 5 January 2021 3:09 PM
> > To: 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List' <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> > Cc: Rayn Darren <rayndarren at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Subscribing to pythonvis at freelists.org
> > 
> > Hi John,
> > 
> > I had a look round and can't find the specific list you're looking for.
> > There are loads of them so narrowing it down would definitely help.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Sarah
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of John J. Boyer via
> > NFBCS
> > Sent: Monday, January 4, 2021 3:52 PM
> > To: nfbcs at nfbnet.org
> > Cc: John J. Boyer <john.boyer at abilitiessoft.org>
> > Subject: [NFBCS] Subscribing to pythonvis at freelists.org
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I first tried the Web, but their web page didn't make sense to me. But
> then,
> > most don't.
> > I next tried sending a message to ecartis at frelists.org with subscribe
> > pythonvis in the subject line. This produced a subscription consent
> message
> > that asked me to go to a URL. This was some instructions and boxes to
> > incicate agreement with terms of service and provacy policy.
> > As soon as I clicked on the terms of service checkbox the page disappeared
> > and was replaced by a new one. I was not subscribed. What gives?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > John
> > 
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