1. Is anyone else getting occasional bounces when posting to IBMMAIN? I have started getting them sometimes. A retry sometimes produces another bounce; eventually the post goes through, obviously.
2. I am on a small rural ISP. They do not have a roomful of high-powered engineers. They recently changed e-mail server software, about coincident with the start of the bounces. When I complained to the ISP they said "the problem is with UA.edu, not us." I said that was not likely, they successfully received hundreds of posts per day, no one else was complaining, etc. He finally wrote to the DNS-listed (?) contact for UA.edu and here is the response he got. Do we even exist? Have I been imagining all of this? Seriously, any suggestions? Charles From: "Watters, John" <john.watt...@ua.edu> To: Business Manager <mana...@mcn.org> Subject: RE: failure notice Date: February 20, 2016 at 5:54:17 PM PST This LISTSERV list was discontinued over 10 years ago, several years after we got rid of our IBM mainframe computers. I was not responsible for it but did know of its existence. The person who was responsible for it left the University about 9 years ago. I have no idea how to get in touch with him. I suspect that the reason it seems to have eventually gone through is that our spam filters just sucked it in and discarded it. Since I have nothing to do with that process either (I am a network engineer primarily responsible for wireless networking on campus; no idea why the Help Desk sent you to me other than I have been here a looooong time), I cannot give you a definitive answer. Please just remove this mailing list from your records. Thanks. ========================== -jcw ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
