Peter and I discussed this problem before he brought it to your attention. It has something that has caught me out on a couple of occasions (mercifully without any serious embarrassment arising) but the purpose of this email is to let you know that the matter is causing increasing comment on the Group Managers' Forum at Groups.io where I am active on several groups. (The GMF is a peer to peer group and does not involve Groups.io management)
The subject has been posed by other UK contributors there and I have been able to inform them that the matter is being looked at within BT (Peter has also told me about a Private communication sent to him 3 weeks ago) and while I accept that BT providing a target date for its resolution might be unwise I would have hoped that something more would have emerged by now. The silence is rather deafening, as it were.
I know this forum has no "executive authority" but if you think it appropriate you might care to pass on that it is not just Peter who has encountered this problem.
It is also worth noting that the problem is attracting greater attention because Yahoo is more or less closing its online groups and as a result many groups and their members are migrating to Groups.io. I believe that the total number of new groups tops the 4000 mark and I simply cannot imagine how many individual members that might involve. As many groups have an "international" membership it is reasonable to assume that more than a handful of UK subscribers will have btinternet.com email addresses.
The sooner this can be resolved the better...
Chris
