>From time to time, I have been asked why the posts from the DXR stop, or why was I unsubscribed, so here are a few answers.
>From time to time, an ISP decides to go kablamm and stops forwarding posts to its subscribers (the main reason). This seems to be more prevalent with some of the European ISP's and the arrl.org addressees. Each day, actually, each time I download DXR posts, I get a list of bounced mail (mail that was not delivered for one reason or another). On average, over 100 per day. The record was several months ago, after Sept 11 when I had to download over 3000 bounced messages. Remember, each post generates a bounce as do each subsequent reply to the list. There are essentially 2 types of bouncing mail..soft and hard (mind you tongues!!!) A soft bounce is a message that has not been delivered and the ISP will continue trying. For whatever reason, your ISP can not deliver the mail, but keeps trying. The other is a hard bounce and the ISP basically does not recognize the e-mail address. If a hard bounce address is found 3 days in ar ow, it is deleted/unsubscribed. Usually, it's because someone has changed their e-mail address and not changed their forwarding account to recognize it, etc. Sometimes, the ISP won't recognize the list (Urb can explain better) and you get bounced as soon as you subscribe. In those cases, I drop you a quick line to let you know. The last reason is that your mailbox is full. That constitutes an instant unsubscribing. Urb has provided a stress-free way to subscribe and unsubscribe, so there really is no reason for full mailboxes, although several Hokies from Va Tech, who shall remain nameless seem to be big offenders when school goes on break (like in 2 weeks and where are my tickets to the Gator Bowl?? sorry, sidelined) If you stop getting DXR posts, drop me line. I'll look into it and see what happened. Anyway, hope this answers a couple of the more popular questions. Enjoy the week, type you all soon 73, Steven - KF2TI Systems Administrator NJDXA DXR Reflector outgoing mail scanned with Norton's NAV2002 ------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems, etc DX-NEWS http://njdxa.org/dx-news DX-CHAT: http://njdxa.org/dx-chat To post a message, DX NEWS items only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news%40pro-usa.net/
