Carl's says he's getting the same message. Well, almost the same. The
message I quoted has my ISP's IP address, indicating that his mailserver
has it blackballed. I just ignored it until Carl mentioned his own problem.
Frank is undoubtedly receiving the listserv mail itself, just not messages
I send to his email address direct.
I was just wondering what my ISP did to get in trouble. I can't really
complain to them - because I work for them or actually the parent company
and thus my internet is free.
David
At 10:14 PM 10/9/00 -0700, Tab Julius wrote:
>One possibility is that his mailserver is rejecting mail from the
>list. Some spam filters that are improperly set up will not accept
>listserv mail. It's possible there was no filter when he signed up, but
>one was added later by his ISP. Another possibility is that this
>mailserver was blackballed (banned) from sending stuff to him, either
>perhaps due to some actual spam that crept through, some multiple message
>problem, some off-color jokes (about cats?), or who knows what.
>
>The "user unknown" is sometimes automatically generated when a server is
>banned.
>
>Or, he could perhaps honestly have closed that account.
>
>If you can email him directly but not through the list, that would suggest
>the list is banned. If no one can email him at all at that account, then
>perhaps the account is closed.
>
>- Tab
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