Re: mailing list / gateway problems

[Michael Cook <michael@waxrat.com>]

"Jason L Tibbitts III" <tibbs@math.uh.edu> writes:

> Well, the "unknown reasons" are simply "you bounced a bunch of
> consecutive messages, and then bounced all of the probes".  xemacs.org
> just seems to bounce stuff every so often.  If that causes problems for
> you, I guess I could suggest using a more reliable host for your mail.

That used to happen to me frequently -- for ding@ and for other
mailing lists.  It turned out my email service provider
(godaddy.com) was using IP address blacklists to refuse email from
certain senders.  (They didn't make it clear they were doing this
filtering, and there was no way to disable it.)  For any mailing
list I would subscribe to, eventually enough people would send mail
from blacklisted IP addresses and I would get unsubscribed.

I stopped using that email service provider.

Michael