On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 1:45 AM, Michael Gibson <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've been having issues with subscribing using my ISP's e-mail service, > but my GMail account still works.... > > Google must have a secret arrangement with Cornell? > > Where's my tin foil hat? :) > One issue is that the first time an email has delivery problems, Cornell seems to drop your email from the list with no second chances. So if your ISP restarts their mail server and it's down for two minutes, and a listserve message happens to come out during those two minutes and the email server for the listserve sees your ISP's mail server isn't answering, you're probably going to get kicked off. Since gmail has more redundancies than many email systems, it's less likely to be caught in that net. Note that this is supposition based on observed behavior, not insider knowledge.
