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Updated: January 22, 2022 Short version The Corgi-l email list is moving has moved to groups.io on Saturday, January 22 Existing list members have been automatically added to the new system There’s nothing you really need to do, except start sending your Corgi-L email to a new email address: list@corgil.groups.io . If you are not a … Read more
Earlier this year Yahoo! made a change to how they handle email. One unintended side-effect of that change was that a bunch of people on Corgi-L were UNsubscribed through no fault of their own – and they weren’t even Yahoo! subscribers themselves. We posted about it here. The issue is simply that when listserv sends email … Read more
CorgiAid is a nonprofit organization whose goal is to help Corgis — Cardigans, Pembrokes, and mixes — who are looking for their forever families to get healthy. CorgiAid is a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to supporting independent rescue of Pembroke and Cardigan Welsh corgis and corgi mixes of either breed worldwide. We provide funds for extraordinary … Read more
Corgi-L’s administrative team consists of list members who have volunteered to handle the technical and administrative end of managing a listserv list of this size. Their duties include handling error messages, managing our email service, setting list policy, resolving complaints and disputes, and moderating postings to the list. When you send a question to admin@corgil.groups.io … Read more
=XX (with various XX) shows up mostly in Corgi-L digests when the message author has a particular plain text setting. Unfortunately not all can change this setting, or would be able to. It’s kind of like the HTML versus plain text issue, but much more obscure. It’s more like there’s plain text, and then there’s … Read more
Corgi-L is a moderated list. While some of the moderators seem to sit at our computers all day just waiting for posts to approve, the reality is that we all also have lives. If we’re going to be busy for an hour or two, we’ll deal with pending approvals when we return. So delays of … Read more
“The Bridge”? “The Watching”? “FRAP”? “RHT”? Find out here. Bridge, The: see The Rainbow Bridge, below. BHT: Black Headed Tri-Color BTW: Internet Shorthand for “By The Way” Corgwn: the Welsh plural for Corgi. The “w” has sort of an “oo” sound (the “oo” is pronounced as in “book”). However, “Corgis” is a perfectly acceptable plural, and … Read more
The Corgi-L Photo Gallery has been retired. There are so many better alternatives these days to our own, old, clunky photo gallery, and when you add to that the security & spam issues that we’ve been fighting since the day we set it up … well, it’s just time to retire the Corgi-L Photo Gallery. … Read more