[Elecraft] List Membership Second Time Around

[David F. Reed]

Ed,

without seeing the full header,most of us would only be able to "guess"; 
with the full header of the bounce messages, some of us could tell you 
what happened.

So, by way of guessing, here goes:

    when a list sends you a message, it gets bounced for one of several
    reasons; that your ISP is ignoring them (not accepting messages),
    that someone in the loop (say, for example you use "mycall at arrl.net"
    as an email address, and it merely forwards email to whatever
    address you give it to do that) could be down, or having trouble
    relaying to you, or there could be a DNS (Domain Name Service that
    converts the name to an I. P.  address) failure for a variety of
    reasons.

    When that happens, some lists will unsubscribe you (a good practice
    to reduce dead traffic).

    So the headers contain the information of where and what went wrong,
    which could help.

    Sometimes an ISP tries to "help" you by counting all kinds of stuff
    as SPAM, some correctly and some not so correctly. 

    The problem was not likely at Elecraft, but more likely something
    with your ISP, whom you should be able to contact for help, though
    typically they are not much help in my experience, which is why some
    of us end up learning this stuff in the school of hard knocks.

73 de Dave, W5SV


epalmer at sirisonline.com wrote:
> Hello everyone. Sorry to take up bandwidth but maybe someone can help my
> mentally limited brain understand the excessive bounce notices and what
> they imply.
>
> A few months back I kept getting excessive bounce notices and had to keep
> re-enabling my membership. Eventually the membership was cancelled. So
> when I see these notices what should I be doing or not doing. I sent an
> e-mail to Elecraft a few months back but didn't get a response as everyone
> there is pretty darn busy.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> 73 de Ed N0EHQ; patiently waiting for my K3.
>
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