On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 18:55:54 +0000, Lee Fuller <m...@leefuller.io> wrote:
> Sorry to drag up this old relic, Steve - did your investigation yield > anything useful? > > Mail is a complicated subject so I'm keen to hear about the conclusion of > issues like this. > > On 15 December 2015 at 23:14, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tuesday 15 December 2015 19:29:50 Brian wrote: > > > Pestering us > > > appears to have its benefits. Just think, your response might have edged > > > him towards it. :) > > > > To be fair, Brian, it wasn't pestering us that was complained about, it was > > pestering the listmasters. "Pestering" us was the right thing to do, and > > as > > you say helped the OP solve his problem. > > > > Lisi Yes, the problem has been solved. I posted as follows and added "[SOLVED]" to the Subject in the header: On Mon Dec 14 10:22:25 2015, I wrote: > I have now been able to resubscribe. What I did was to stop routing my mail > through my employer's main router. I believe that was the source of the > bounces from improper processing of validation tags. Dodging that router let > me succeed in replying to confirm my subscription. > > I began relaying through this router ten years ago because a different > recipient didn't like my originating IP. If that's now busted again, I'll > work through it. > > Thank you very much to all of you who posted or wrote with helpful and useful > suggestions.