From Aran M. Parillo Sent Thu, May 21st 1998, 17:47
From Aran M. Parillo Sent Thu, May 21st 1998, 17:47
On Wed, 20 May 1998, GamePrg. wrote: > hmm... strange thing happened.. > > This msg is for Aran, who runs our list.. > > somehow my name was either removed from the list or something got fouled > up.. I dunno, I assume if you get pulled from the list you can't resubscribe > (and I can't imagine what I did that would get me pulled from the list) More often then not, this is due to a problem with your mail server bouncing back idm-mail to me marked "undeliverable". As this is a fairly active list, often times people using "free mail" accounts or "aol" or any other ISP which enforces strict mail quotas, when a user exceeds their quota, the mail server barfs the IDM mail back to me. I will tolerate exceeded mail quotas and other mailer anomalies for about 1 hour before I pipe the bounced mail off to a script which auto-unsubscribed the offending email. It's nothing personal, just how things are run around here. I'll add some verbiage into the idm-info to de-mystify this occurance, as it happens at least once a week. In a related area, I would like to remind any subscribers who have their email acces through university or school, and who will not be able to access their email during the impending summer, to please remember to unsubscribe from any mailing lists before taking off. Aran IDM-owner