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The Brass Band Mailing List is a group of nearly 300 players from around the world sharing our interest. Why not join? It's free, is a great way to make contact with them to share ideas and only takes a couple of minutes. You can subscribe to the mailing list or browse through previous posts by looking at the archive. When subscribing you will be sent a message containing instructions to confirm that you are who you say you are, then voila! you're on the list.

When you sign up you will be sent a document that covers some of the wisdom and folk-lore that helps you get the best out of the Internet and your membership of the group.

New subscriptions are not being taken e-mail addresses from Bigfoot, Hotmail, Cable and Wireless, IC24, Virgin Net and AOL customers, because emails sent to their servers have been known to bounce in the past.

Bigfoot: Bigfoot often bounces mail because they incorrectly block messages from Demon customers, such as the host of the brass band mailing list, because of a problem in the ORBL database that they use. I don't know why they block the list, but I suspect that it may have to do with their attempt at stopping spam mail, though they seem to have targeted legitimate mailing lists such as the brass band mailing list. I have contacted them but they haven't bothered to reply. If you want to use Bigfoot to join the brass band mailing list, you will need to contact them to correct their database.

Hotmail: Hotmail often bounces mail from the brass band mailing list. I don't know why, the error message is "554 transaction failed" or
Original-Recipient:
Final-Recipient: rfc822;XXXXXX@hotmail.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0
I suspect that it may be false positives from their attempt at stopping spam mail.
Cwcom (Cable and Wireless): Cwcom/mcmail does not correctly handle error messages known as bounces. When they send a bounce the error message comes from a different address. They claim it is for "security reasons". I can only suggest that you find a different ISP or pressure them into honouring Internet standards.

Virginnet: Virginnet suffers from the same incorrect bounce problem as Cable and Wireless except that all e-mails to postmaster@virginnet.co.uk bounce, which means that debugging problems is impossible. I can only suggest that you find a different ISP or pressure them into honouring Internet standards.

IC24: IC24 also suffers from the same incorrect bounce problem, messages to postmaster@ic24.net are answered and, unlike C&W, correct and helpful dialogue can ensue. However, I suggest that you find a different ISP or pressure them into fixing their bounce messages.

AOL: AOL bounces brass band mailing list items which seem to create false positives in their anti-spam system. For further information visit here. You are advised to seek an alternative email address or ISP.

If you've moved to a new area and are looking for a band to join there is a list of situations vacant and one of situations wanted. As well as existing as a web page, the list is also posted monthly to the Internet newsgroups, and different mailing lists that have brass interests.

If you have a web site, please help to publicise our group by putting this HTML on it somewhere. Contact me about adding your web page to our group, and the contents in it to our searchable brass band database.

<A HREF="http://www.bandsman.co.uk">
<img src="http://www.bandsman.co.uk/images/brass.gif"
alt="Brass Band Portal"
width="204" height="30" hspace="0" align="right" border="0" target="_top"></A>

If your band does not have a web site then contact me about how NJH Music can arrange that for you.

The list is maintained for free, I do not make any money from it, however a lot of people interested in brass bands pass through this site, so if you're interested in sponsoring the site, or the mailing list drop me a line.