Simon W Fox wrote:
>
> I haven't received anything from the list for a couple of days. Is
> everything OK or is there a problem?
You probably got unsubscribed if your mail server started
refusing MapInfo-L messages. Lately, this is usually the result
of misguided anti-spam and virus countermeasures employed by your
ISP. Some of them blindly block all mail that is relayed to you
via a mail server (like ours at [EMAIL PROTECTED]). The theory is
that if the original sender is not the current sender (i.e.
someone sends mail to the list as the original sender, and the
list sends that message to everyone else becoming the relaying
sender) then the mail must be unwanted trash. Of course, that's
not always true, so clear that up with your ISP.
Other reasons for mail being bounced include people abandoning
their accounts, letting their disk quota get exceeded,
misconfigered servers, broken down servers, and probably a few
evil spirits drifting about the net. True, sometimes these
problems are temporary, but when I see that messages could not be
sent to your server for more than a couple of days, I don't want
to deal with several more days of bouncing MapInfo-L mail coming
from your server, so your address gets lopped off the subscribers
list.
Since tens to hundreds of bounced messages from the list pile up
in my mailbox every day I've been getting more aggressive with
taking problem addresses off the list. I can't always send you a
note about it because that takes a lot of time (and if your
address is broken it won't reach you anyway), but if I don't keep
the broken addresses cleaned up, then the list delivery slows
down as the MapInfo-L server tries to resend messages or wait for
timeouts.
Until we get a more automated setup (I'm considering moving the
list to the Directions Magazine list host... so give that some
thought) I'll be dropping any addresses causing more than their
fair share of trouble.
Anyway, the solution is to resubscribe. If your address continues
to be a problem, I'll start to notice and will contact you
(because by resubscribing I know you really are still out there)
and we will work it out.
- Bill Thoen
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