> > According to a message on the expert list, apparently at some
> > point sympa lost its connection and the ability to send.  This
> > resulted in all the messages remaining in the queue being
> > bounced.  Bounced message = bad address in sympa's eyes, so all
> > those addresses were unsubbed.  This affected the majority of
> > subscribers to all the mandrake lists.

I think that is a good explanation, but i hadn't heard it
definitively.

> Ahah!
> That would explain why the adress I'm using now wasn't
> unsubbed.......It was set to "nomail" thus not queued.

Well, now that you mention it, after the Great Cleanout of 2003, a
lot of the remaining addresses were either set to digest or
nomail...

eric

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