On Wed, 09 May 2001 14:52:07 +0000, Ross Virgin wrote:
> ...
> ...
> This list discussed 6 or 8 months ago, the technique of
> composing "mailing lists" as pure ASCII text files, with
> each addressee on a separate line, terminated with a
> carriage return ... etc.
> Then, the entry in the To field or in the CC
> field would be @FILE in which FILE is the
> ASCII text file with all the people of your mailing list.
> For many months I have used this technique, several
> hundreds of times, with 80 or 90 different "FILE"
> names as different lists of recipients.
> Great system .....
> For 2 weeks now, everytime I try to mail to one of those
> 80 or 90 "FILE"s Arachne says "syntax error".
> Yet the 80 or 90 FILEs have not been changed or touched
> in any way from the same FILEs which have been used
> for many months ..... previously with no problem, no
> "syntax error".
> I have been using the Arachne 1.66 , on the same computer,
> with the same modem, on the same phone line, to the
> same ISP
> What the heck is going on ..................
Hello Ross:
The situation you have described here might not be due to any problem
with Arachne, otherwise many others would probably be reporting the same
kind of difficulties with their mailing lists.
Perhaps your ISP has recently imposed a new policy on mailing lists.
In an effort to thwart would-be spammers some ISPs are limiting the
number of recipients to whom a user may send a single email message.
I would suggest that you ask your ISP's tech support people about this
to see if they have set up any changes at their end insofar as the
handling of multiple recipients for email messages is concerned.
All the best,
Sam Heywood
