Today I've been getting all sorts of notifications. Heaven knows why. And the person I'm chatting with is getting them also. Rosemary On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Rosemary Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > No notification Barry. > > I get the occasional notification but apparently you are not among the few > who are granted this honour. > > For the last 2 days I've been chatting with a friend on the east coast > through the email system and neither of us has received notifications. > > It seems we're on the s..t list also. > > Rosemary > > > On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Barry S. Finkel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 3/1/2014 2:00 AM, Nivard Ovington wrote: >> > Hi all >> > >> > Having had conflicting accounts that some have have received them and >> > others haven't I phoned Ancestry today >> > >> > They say there is a known issue and the notifications to email should >> > still occur >> > >> > They are looking into it >> > >> > Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) >> >> I have run some tests. I sent ancestry mail, with a follow-up >> e-mail (as I know each one's e-mail address) to two relatives >> and one friend. None received ancestry notification. >> >> There are three persons who have said on >> this list that they still receive notifications. I sent tests to >> two (the third has not given me information on locating him/her on >> ancestry). I sent no follow-up e-mail. One saw my mail on ancestry >> and said that the e-mail notification had not yet arrived. I assume >> that since this person has not written to me that a notification had >> arrived, the notification has not (and will not) arrive. The other one >> has not replied, I assume because there was no e-mail notification and >> this ancestry user has not checked the inbox. >> >> There are three possibilities - >> >> 1) The notification mail is being sent but is queued somewhere within >> ancestry. I doubt this, as the outbound mail queues would grow >> large enough for a competent e-mail administrator would notice. >> >> 2) An intentional change was made to the ancestry code to disable >> notifications, and the support personnel to whom Nivard and I >> communicated are unaware of the change. >> >> 3) An unintentional change was made to the ancestry code, and no one >> within ancestry noticed it. >> >> I spent many years as chief postmaster where I used to work, so I know >> a lot about e-mail. I sent my first e-mail in 1974 before the Internet >> mail standards; that was via FTP. My first real e-mail was in 1983. >> >> --Barry Finkel >> Chicago >> >> --Barry Finkel >> ********************************** >> List information page >> http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html >> >> Version 2008 - 2012 >> http://ancestry.custhelp.com/app/home >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > >