Well, we have the answer as to why they instituted this mechanisms: to ride herd on admins who were not responding to join requests. I can understand the *reason* for doing this, but I still feel its implementation is a total *kludge*. And much of the kludginess would be removed if the GAP would simply send me an email COPY of each message, so I have something to file in my email client -- and a quick way to review that correspondence. What they should have done is simply expand the method we once used to Allow/Disallow people already tested to join. The unanswered requests sat there on the GAP, so FTDNA knew whether we were answering their request, one way or another, and at least we had their email address, so we could correspond with them easily, until the decision was made. Diana > -----Original Message----- > From: y-dna-projects-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:y-dna-projects- > bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Raymond > Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 12:23 PM > To: y-dna-projects@rootsweb.com > Subject: [Y-DNA-projects] FTDNA sending threatening emails > > Since the GAP 2 change I have been unable to even send a reply to a join request entered > in the FTDNA systems...I have reported this numerous times but get the same reply that > IT has fixed the problem...now I received this email the other day...notice the line > "Barring the cleaning out..."... > <snip>

On 12/4/2010 5:03 PM, Diana Gale Matthiesen wrote: >> Since the GAP 2 change I have been unable to even send a reply to a join > request entered >> > in the FTDNA systems...I have reported this numerous times but get the same > reply that >> > IT has fixed the problem...now I received this email the other day...notice > the line >> > "Barring the cleaning out..."... >> > I decided to try one more time to reply to a project join request...this time when I received the error message I noticed that it was flagging my comment within the email concerning my <email address>....apparently the system will not allow the use of the angle bracket...I changed my written reply to my "...send to my (email address)"....the system accepted it and the reply was sent... Raymond

Angle brackets <> are used to set off HTML tags. There are many contexts where using them will cause trouble. You found a workable solution. Diana > -----Original Message----- > From: y-dna-projects-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:y-dna-projects- > bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Raymond > Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 9:02 AM > To: y-dna-projects@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [Y-DNA-projects] FTDNA sending threatening emails > > I decided to try one more time to reply to a project join request...this time when I > received the error message I noticed that it was flagging my comment within the email > concerning my <email address>....apparently the system will not allow the use of the > angle bracket...I changed my written reply to my "...send to my (email address)"....the > system accepted it and the reply was sent... > > Raymond >