[Lowfer] Hotmail.com bouncing qth.net email

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Doug

Just a note of thanks for all your work running this reflector ... and sorry to hear about the extra 
work required due to substandard e mail providers.

Jay W1VD  WD2XNS  WE2XGR/2  WG2XRS/2


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Reed" <n0nas at amsat.org>
To: "Lowfer" <Lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 3:34 PM
Subject: [Lowfer] Hotmail.com bouncing qth.net email


> Hi gang.
>
> I just want to mention that Bob Raide brought to my attention that
> hotmail.com must have been bouncing qth.net email for the last several
> days. There were 8 people on the LOWFER mail list using hotmail.com
> addresses, including Bob, and they had all been disabled for excessive
> bounces.
>
> I've turned on those 8 email addresses again, but if Hotmail is still
> bouncing them, they will just be disabled again. Please understand,
> the cause of the problem is NOT at qth.net or the LOWFER list. The
> LOWFER list is running as it should and bounce processing is happening
> as it should.
>
> If Hotmail has stopped bouncing qth.net, then those 8 people will
> receive this email. If not, they will continue to receive nothing from
> LOWFER. If you are one of the eight, you must go to your qth.net
> subscription page and re-enable any other email lists you belong to at
> qth.net. Any email list that is active enough to have at least one
> email per day has probably be disabled due to Hotmail bounces.
>
> The usual cause of this sort of problem is either people who forgot
> how to disable their remailer subscription, or spammers who forge an
> email address at qth.net and send a lot of emails. Somebody complains
> to Hotmail about spam coming from qth.net, and they add it to a
> blacklist. The problem will exist until the operators of qth.net can
> track back to the originator of the blacklist and get it removed.
> Nothing we can do about it but live with it or stop using Hotmail.
>
> Good luck.
>
> 73, Doug Reed, N0NAS.
> LOWFER volunteer list admin.
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