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On 09/16/2015 07:53 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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El 2014-09-18 a las 10:33 -0500, Troy McCorkell escribió:
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<blockquote type="cite">On 09/18/2014 07:46 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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Hi,
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Now an then I get messages like this:
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Your membership in the mailing list xfs has been disabled due to
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excessive bounces The last bounce received from you was dated
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18-Sep-2014. You will not get any more messages from this list
until
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you re-enable your membership. You will receive 3 more reminders
like
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this before your membership in the list is deleted.
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To re-enable your membership, you can simply respond to this
message
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(leaving the Subject: line intact), or visit the confirmation
page at
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Bounces? I'm subscribed to several mail lists, and this is the
only one "complaining". And as I do not know
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what messages bounced, I can not investigate it.
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My guess is that those emails were clear and flagrant spam, and
as such were rejected by my ISP.
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The mail list should refuse them on entry and not resend them to
the listers.
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- -- Cheers,
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Carlos E. R.
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(from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)
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Carlos,
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I will forward your email to the SGI IT group.
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Well, I got no further feedback, and the issue continues, a year later.
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As I see it, it goes like this:
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Spam is sent to the list. The list forwards it to subscribers. Some
mail servers, like my ISP, point blank refuse to accept what is
flagrant spam; not a doubt about it, it doesn't reach the spam folder.
That spam probably breaks a rule such as having no valid sender domain,
breaking SPF, something. I don't know for sure, because I can not see
the logs of my ISP. But the oss.sgi.com admin can, surely.
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The problem for me is that this list server automatically unsubscribes
me, and I have to re-subscribe, posibly loosing interveening posts.
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I suggest that the list server implements filters to remove those spam
mails on entry, instead of forwarding them. Alternatively, other mail
list servers send a probe email to the subscriber; if the probe
bounces, twice, then the subscription is temporarily disabled. But they
don't unsubscribe people because some "list" posts bounce, unless it is
excesive.
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- -- Cheers
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Carlos E. R.
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(from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith))
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I'll chat with the SGI IT group again.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Troy<br>
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