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----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Thoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Simon W Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: MI Lack of mail!!
>Simon W Fox wrote:
>>
>> I haven't received anything from the list for a couple of days. Is
>> everything OK or is there a problem?
>
>You probably got unsubscribed if your mail server started
>refusing MapInfo-L messages. Lately, this is usually the result
>of misguided anti-spam and virus countermeasures employed by your
>ISP. Some of them blindly block all mail that is relayed to you
>via a mail server (like ours at [EMAIL PROTECTED]). The theory is
>that if the original sender is not the current sender (i.e.
>someone sends mail to the list as the original sender, and the
>list sends that message to everyone else becoming the relaying
>sender) then the mail must be unwanted trash. Of course, that's
>not always true, so clear that up with your ISP.
>
>Other reasons for mail being bounced include people abandoning
>their accounts, letting their disk quota get exceeded,
>misconfigered servers, broken down servers, and probably a few
>evil spirits drifting about the net. True, sometimes these
>problems are temporary, but when I see that messages could not be
>sent to your server for more than a couple of days, I don't want
>to deal with several more days of bouncing MapInfo-L mail coming
>from your server, so your address gets lopped off the subscribers
>list.
>
>Since tens to hundreds of bounced messages from the list pile up
>in my mailbox every day I've been getting more aggressive with
>taking problem addresses off the list. I can't always send you a
>note about it because that takes a lot of time (and if your
>address is broken it won't reach you anyway), but if I don't keep
>the broken addresses cleaned up, then the list delivery slows
>down as the MapInfo-L server tries to resend messages or wait for
>timeouts.
>
>Until we get a more automated setup (I'm considering moving the
>list to the Directions Magazine list host... so give that some
>thought) I'll be dropping any addresses causing more than their
>fair share of trouble.
>
>Anyway, the solution is to resubscribe. If your address continues
>to be a problem, I'll start to notice and will contact you
>(because by resubscribing I know you really are still out there)
>and we will work it out.
>
>- Bill Thoen
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