Hello, all. I used to have the policy of leaving users subscribed to the mailing list if I got "temporary" bounces associated with things like overfull mailboxes, brain dead "on vacation" messages, etc. Unfortunately, the number of bounces I have to deal with has gone up a lot lately, because people using various commercial mail services seem to clean out their mailboxes too slowly and go over quota. As a result, I have to institute a new policy -- if your mail starts bouncing, even with a message like "user temporarily over quota" or "mailbox full" or the like, I'm going to unsubscribe you. This is not to say that you couldn't then later re-join the list, but I'm not going to give you a grace period any longer. The same policy goes for things like "I'm away for a week" messages. For some reason, a lot of commercial mail packages seem to (very stupidly) reply with "on vacation" messages in reply to mailing list mail. I can't deal with that any more. If your mail reader/mail system is too stupid to follow the rules, too bad -- you'll have to resubscribe when you get back from your week away. I'm very sorry to do this, but I'm now dealing with literally hundreds of bounces a day, and I just can't do that any more. If I could automate the process it would be different, but unfortunately, every mail system on earth insists on having a radically different set of error messages from every other. Perry
