When I have tried to contact them regarding their registrations, my emails have bounced back at me (with a failure message about giving up after trying three times to get through). (There may be other email address providers with this problem as well, that I don't know about, because they didn't send me such failure messages.)

So, this is an attempt to let people know a few things about registering to participate in the Hatrack River Writers Workshop forum that I can't seem to let people know through emails.

1--I would really like to know that a registration is not some kind of spam registration. (We used to get an awful lot of spambot registrations, but the captcha has helped to stop most of those. However, captchas don't stop the people who want to register merely for search engine optimization (seo) and who don't really care anything about writing).

2--If people don't tell me anything about themselves (occupation and/or interests, for example) when they register, I email them and ask about their interest in the Hatrack River Writers Workshop forum.

3--If people tell me enough about themselves when they register, I email them and tell them that their registrations have been activated and a little about how to "login."

4--If my emails are bounced back at me, I just leave things in limbo in hopes that the people will care enough to inquire, and I hope that my emails will get through to them finally.

5--If my emails never get through, and if people know someone who is already participating, I hope they will try to contact me through their friends (as has had to happen in a few cases recently). I am thrilled when a friend checks with me for someone who can't receive my emails for whatever reason.

6--If people register and tell me about themselves when they register, or by a separate email, and I can't get through to them to acknowledge that, I hope they try to "login" every so often, because if I know they are not spam or seo registrations I have probably already activated their registrations so they can reply to others' topics and create their own topics.

7--I am really sorry for the hassle and the frustration--I don't know why yahoo.co.uk won't accept my emails (and possibly other email service providers, for that matter). I really am doing the best I can to make the Hatrack River Writers Workshop forum a good place for all writers.

Perhaps send the mail to yourself, then copy paste into a google account, then forward to the person.

Or a yahoo account... haha, hopefully it wouldn't reject that.

Though going by the fact I can now post my account has been activated

Please let me know if it bounces back.

If you haven't tried to email me from your yahoo.co.uk email address, or I haven't tried to email you, we would not have noticed any difficulty.

Isn't SMTP for outgoing emails? So does that mean that your email couldn't find my email box or server?

I moderate another forum for OSC on a different website, and the software is a little different from that used for this forum. On that forum, there is a "smilie" that shows a little round yellow head banging itself against a brick wall.

I wish we had that "smilie" here.

We can hope, however, that with the error message, the techgnomes can figure out what the problem is.

I don't have a junk emailbox or a spam emailbox, so I can't go there and check for it.

If it hasn't bounced back at you, at least that's improved, though it's not much of an improvement if you don't know whether your email got through to me or not.

I'll let the techgnomes know.