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Gang, My apologies for this message, but we have a small problem here. If you are using an AOL.COM or NETSCAPE.NET email address, the AOL Postmaster automation is presently bouncing DX Chat messages back. The bounce includes a web site link, which reveals the problem as: "The IP address you are sending from has been temporarily rate limited due to AOL Member complaints." (I am BCC'ing the AOL & Netscape users to ensure that they get this message, I hope) On further investigation, it appears that at least one of the AOL / NETSCAPE users of this email server -- that is, the host of DX Chat, DX News and many other mailing lists, including non-amateur ones -- has accidently or otherwise classified messages from this reflector as "spam," at least once (I don't know what their threshold is in terms of number of complaints and/or number of users complaining). Suffice to say, this is not good... as Urb has mentioned in the past, since the IP address is blocked, it affects all mail from the server, which affects his commercial and government customers too. While I really hope that the cause of this is from somewhere other than this reflector, please understand that I feel obligated to ask this: If you are an AOL / Netscape user who no longer wishes to get messages from DX Chat, rather than mark them as "spam," it would be greatly appreciated if you would just unsubscribe. If you'd like, let me know and I'll take care of it for you. Otherwise, until the problem is solved, if you have an alternate email address (including freebie mailboxes from yahoo, hotmail, etc.) you may want to sign it up. Granted, we don't have a lot of traffic here, but I recognize quite a few email addresses on the BCC list, and I'd really hate to see you guys go. Remember, if the problem can't be solved otherwise, to protect his paying customers, Urb may have to do some less than popular things here, as he's mentioned before. Thanks for you time and consideration. 73, ron wn3vaw administrator, dx chat |
