Guest guest Posted March 30, 2000 Report Share Posted March 30, 2000 Ok everyone log onto the onelist homepage at http:// log in to your account got to the Home page turn your family filter OFF They have just added this " feature " and set the default to on > has anyone else not recieved mail lately that may have been related to this? The following is messages on this topic from another list... ====================================== Onelist has added a new feature, and didnt tell anyone! They have added a " family filter " , which would not be a problem except the default is " ON " . This has been slowing down mail, and preventing some mail from getting through. HOW TO REMOVE THE " FAMILY FILTER " Go to www. Once you are logged on make sure you are on the home page. You should see a section that says join a group and has a search engine for the site. Right above the search engine you will see a text line that will say Family Filter On or Family Filter Off. Most likely will say Family Filter On. Click on the text line it will take you to a page with the following: O Family Filter On. If the circle is marked, click on it and then press done. This will turn the Family Filter Off and you will receive all your emails without intervention from Onelist. Write and complain, and forward this to every group you are on. The issue is not the filter per se, it is that they added this feature-- set to On as default-- without telling their users. I noticed that I was not receiveing all of my mail as all of my OneList lists seemed to be deadly quiet. I am pitching a major fit about this, and I strongly recommend that you do also. From the Onelist site: =================== Help Search Results for family filter Q. What is the Family Filter? A. The Family Filter is an optional setting which restricts access to adult-oriented content areas on eGroups. Use this setting to hide objectionable content while you (or your children) are browsing eGroups. The eGroups Family Filter is largely based on categorization self-assigned by individual moderators, and does not use keyword filtering or blocking technologies. If you believe that a group is inappropriately categorized, please contact us with the name of the group. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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