>Wow! What's the story on this? Does the Emailer-Talk list unsubscribe >anybody if even one of the subscribers bounces it back? How strange!
I know the list server is VERY picky with bounces and will unsubscribe someone who's account bounces an email (I believe just one email is sufficient to be unsubscribed). I know I had a hell of a problem with this when I was using a .Mac account and my email was regularly bounced. I don't know why it was unsubscribing Bill due to Brian's block. Brian wasn't actually blocking Bill, but rather cox.net because of spam problems with them. I don't know the specifics on how Brian was doing the blocking, so I don't know why the list server felt it was Bill's fault for bouncing the message and thus unsubscribing him. (I would have thought it would have unsubscribed Brian because Brian's account was the one bouncing the email) >Chris, how did you know who is doing the rejecting? Bill's forward of the bounce message contained part of Brian's email address. I recognized the address as someone from the list, so I searched thru my deleted mail to see if I could find his entire address. It turned out I still had an email in my deleted mail folder from Brian to the list, so I simply played the role of intermediary and sent an email to him pointing out the problem, and asking if he would be a nice guy and try to help resolve it. As it stands, Brian is a nice guy, and as of last night, Bill should be able to post again. At least for the time being. I presume if Brian starts getting flooded with spam from cox.net again, that he may have to reinstate his block on that domain. That may cause Bill to once again be a causality of war in the fight against spam. (I can't fault Brian if he chooses to go that route, although it is his block that is causing Bill to be unsubscribed, it really isn't Brian's fault directly. The list server should be smart enough to not do what it is doing, and cox.net should be responsible enough to stop spammers so Brian doesn't have to block them in the first place. So I don't think any of us can reasonably expect Brian to suffer spam headaches because of issues that are beyond his control. Sounds like a bad thing to say when you know that Bill will be a causality of it, but alas, that's life.) And on the humorous side of things, Emailer's spell check offers as possible correct spellings of "spammers" both "slammers" and "shammers". Both of which seem fitting terms for spammers. :-) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
