Maybe if a few of us forward this post to Mr. Waters he will realize that the list is still active. Then again, maybe he'll make sure that it is shut down.
On Sun, 21 Feb 2016 11:42:58 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
