On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 06:18:39 -0800 Jonathan Leffler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I sent an email explaining how to unsubscribe to someone. > > Subject: How to Unsubscribe - again :-( was Re: Using DBI::Proxy ... > Cc: DBI Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Bharat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The rediffmail.com mail service rejected my message: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT > TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > host mail2.rediffmail.com [203.199.83.4]: 553 sorry, your envelope > sender is in my badmailfrom list (#5.7.1) > > I think that means either Earthlink/Mindspring is on a blacklist or I > am or he is, and probably bgbadhe isn't going to see this followup, > either - though maybe... I got the same response when I tried to respond to another unsubscribe request from Bharat. I followed up through another email provider, so hopefully the new message will get through. Considering how unclueful Bharat's provider seems to be, Baharat may have been trying to get help with this for millenia and is never seeing the responses because they get bounced by rediffmail.com. > And the message is not acceptable to [EMAIL PROTECTED] either: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > BOUNCED: Unsubscribe in subject. Send Unsubscribe requests to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] for > help > > Well, I'm not about to push the envelope to see whether un-subscribe or > u-n-s-u-s-c-r-i-b-e (or subscribe) are trapped too, but there are some > words that simply cannot be used in messages to the dbi-users mailing > list, it seems. Unsubscribe in the subject triggers the rejection message you got in order to minimize the number of 'unsubscribe me' messages we see on the list. Before that was done we seemed to be getting such messages about hourly; now we normally go about a month between the ones I notice. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age.
