On 22 Mar 2007 at 20:41, Ann Harvey wrote:
> George is it just me? I have been bounced about 8 times in the last few
> weeks.
Not just you, but most (all?) subscribers that have freeserve addresses.
Freeserve is very picky, and it thinks that perfectly normal messages
are spam, and refuses to accept delivery of these messages, bouncing
them back to Yahoogroups. When Yahoogroups gets these "bounces", they
realize they can't deliver messages and stop trying, placing the
affected subscribers on the bouncing list. There often seems to be
a 2-3 day delay between the first bounce before I can see it on the
bounce list. Then I, and Yahoogroups, send period "reactivation"
emails to you.
This problem does happen for other ISPs from time to time, just not
as often as freeserve.
I mentioned the particular problem with freeserve a couple of times
in list messages, but most freeserve subscribers have probably not
seen them as their messages were bouncing!
Quite often the offending message starting the bounce cycle was a
message from SOME OTHER Yahoogroup (and could have been actual
spam, depending on how that group is run). However Yahoogroups
appears to stop delivery attempts for all groups you are subscribed
to, not just the one causing the bounce. This means that if you
have access to multiple email addresses, it would be helpful to
subscribe to the canals-list with a unique address, not used for
any other Yahoogroup subscriptions. This could reduce the frequency
of the problem, but not eliminate it.
Another alternative is to use a non-freeserve address, even with
freeserve as your ISP. I think that some free-email-address
providers allow email download in the usual way. Perhaps some
people will post suggestions.
- george [canals-list co-manager]
www.canals.com
