If you will send me an email art rsb...@gmail.com I think I can help. Steve Bray Jackson, Tennessee
>From: "Mark Langford" <n5...@hiwaay.net> >Reply-To: KRnet <kr...@mylist.net> >To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net>,"Corvair engines for homebuilt aircraft" ><corvaircr...@mylist.net> >Subject: KR> unsubscriptions due to bounces >Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 19:05:50 -0500 > >AOL guys, > >I see that a lot of you have gotten thrown off of CorvAircraft and KRnet >due to AOL's crappy email system. The list has a feature that throws you >off after a certain number of undeliverable messages (bounces) in a 48 hour >period. The reason it does that is because if ISPs like AOL (it's the >worst) get a whole lot of mail that is undeliverable with the same subject >and from the same source, it assumes that it's "shotgun spam" that is sent >to every conceivable email address, real or not. AOL will then block any >email from that domain name (the list), and it's virtually impossible to >get it unblocked. For that reason, the email list tries to keep from >sending undeliverable mail, so after a few undelivered emails to your >account, it says "gee I guess he changed screen names so I'll quit >delivering to that address so AOL won't block everybody else's mail". But >the real problem is that AOL is so busy (or has insufficient capacity) that >it can't process mail fast enough (or something like that) so sometimes it >rejects mail as undeliverable because it can't get to it. Then the list >throws you off, and you get mad at ME! Sounds like a vicious circle to me. >That happened to 25 people today, and a lot more last week, all of them on >AOL. > >To get back on, simply send an email to corvaircraft-j...@mylist.net or to >krnet-j...@mylist.net and make sure to reply to the confirmation email >message that you'll get a few minutes later. > >Here's what I'm going to do to try to keep this from happening again. >Although the "bounce threshold" is already four times the recommended level >(that takes care of most of the flaky ISPs), I'm going to increase it to a >factor of 50. This will keep you from getting bounced off (and mad at ME), > but it also runs the risk of all AOL users NEVER recieving krnet or >CorvAircraft mail if AOL adds mylist.net to their blocked spam list. Sound >far-fetched? It's exactly what happened to the last incarnation of KRnet. >I'm tired of fooling around with AOL, so maybe this will take care of it, >one way or the other... > >Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama >see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford >email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net >-------------------------------------------------------------- > >_______________________________________ >Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp >to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net >please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
