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

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 >