Hello Vim users,

A few weeks ago the Vim maillists were moved to the Google Groups
system. For most people this worked well, but some experienced problems
receiving and posting messages. That means one is successfully
subscribed, but messages are not received and posting is not allowed.

It took a while to figure out what went wrong. It turned out that it
was caused by a denied mass-subscribe request. At first I had tried to
automatically subscribe the subscribers of the old maillists at Google
Groups. The requests that were denied have resulted in a special flag
for the e-mail addresses in these lists. That caused the problems.

I have sent this message to the people in the denied requests, but
I got quite a few bounces. Thus I'm repeating the message here for
others that appear to be in this situation.

If you have the problems described, you can do one of these:
- Subscribe with another e-mail address.
- Some people reported that it started working after creating a Google
account.
- Contact Groups support at this URL:
http://groups.google.com/support/bin/request.py

I'm very sorry we caused these problems and it took so long to figure
out what went wrong.

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