Just to clarify things a little, the good major has no automatic unsubscribe function. It does not care if you are subbed or not. If mail bounces, majordomo just routes it to me with the error message attached. I then decide if it's a short term problem (a busy signal, if you will), or something more substantial.
In Aaron's case, for example, everything over a nearly nine hour period was returned to me, which indicates a substantial glitch. I have no way of knowing it is going to get rectified soon, so to keep from having to download/store/examine more and more bounced mail, I chose to unsub the account and move on to the next problem. It's always a judgement call. Sometimes I let it slide, if the ISP has a history of instability, like msn, which can't seem to figure out how to deliver email, and I know it will be back up eventually. But if I get a full mailbox notice from an account, I nuke it as fast as my little fingers can type, because I'm about to get an avalanche of returns if I don't. You know what's really fun? Sometimes a list member will subscribe an account to the PDML, forward the PDML traffic to a separate account, then ignore it. The forward account fills up and starts bouncing mail back to the major, which then dutifully sends it to me. I then get to absorb myself in the joyous task of figuring out who the account belongs to. Good times. Occasionally, I'll get notices sent to my account telling me that messages sent to my account are not getting through....which makes me go, "hmmmm..." There is also a particular ISP in Wisconsin that routinely goes haywire...a domain in China which doesn't work more than it does work...etc, etc, etc. Don't get me started. I guess my point is that if you get unsubbed, it's because something happened with your account, or with the path to your account, and the backwash is drowning me. Doug At 10:00 AM 3/21/02 -0500, you wrote: >Aaron.This has happened to my canoemail account >twice so far this year.I subscribed to my inter.net >account as a back up. >It also did it to me twice near christmas last >year too. >Now i open up both accounts and if i have mail in both >i delete all from one and go into the other to read >just incase it boots me again. >Hooked or what. >BTW the IR film is in the S3 > >Dave - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
