I wonder if this had anything to with the list problem:
<http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/01/1715247>
"Customers hosting with ThePlanet, a major Texas hosting provider, are
going through some tough times. Yesterday <May 31> evening at 5:45 pm
local time an electrical short caused a fire and explosion in the
power room,
knocking out walls and taking the entire facility offline. No one was
hurt and
no servers were damaged. Estimates suggest 9,000 servers are offline,
affecting 7,500 customers, with ETAs for repair of at least 24 hours
from
onset. While they claim redundant power, because of the nature of the
problem they had to go completely dark. This goes to show that no matter
how much planning you do, Murphy's Law still applies."
David
On Jun 3, 2008, at 6:36 PM, COMPUTERGUYS-L automatic digest system
wrote:
Subject: Re: a list problem
I just received this email today (6/1/08). It is the first email
since
1:30 am on 5/28/08. How do I know if my mail is bouncing back and
what
do I need to do to keep on the list?
I think AOL was down over the weekend. The message I got said "I
wasn't
able to establish an SMTP connection" so that means AOL's inbound
email
server was down. It is now back up, so you need to do nothing on that
score.
If you are getting bounces for other reasons you may have to follow
up.
First thing to do is to just send the message again. Larger ISPs have
multiple SMTP servers. Sometimes one gets blacklisted, but when you
send
again you have a good chance of getting a different SMTP server.
If the bounce persists you need to talk to your ISP.
If you think your are not getting mail from the list the first thing
to
check is the archives. This list is archived on two systems (details
at
cguys.org). That will give you something definite to show your ISP.
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