[TheForge] Off list Any admins for TheForge out there?

[Ben Barrett]

If anyone wants to use Google mail (gmail), I have 55 invites left and
want to share.
FYI, using your ISP's provided email service is not actually that good
of an idea,
in case you switch, or they go out of business or what-not.  I'm all
for supporting local
ISP's, don't get me wrong... but it is good to have an account on any
of the major providers
so that you can be reached in the long-term.  These days, they all
provide pretty good anti-spam
in their webmail, so if you prefer yahoo or hotmail/msn or aol or
whatever that is fine :)
(even if you're in a permanent rural location with only one ISP to choose from)

Most of them will let you have email automatically go into a "folder",
based on some rules like "[TheForge]" in the subject -- on gmail, it
is a label actually, so things don't "hide" from you, the labels
overlap instead of being exclusive, like "web 2.0", but that is all
I'll banter about it here.  Really, I'll try to stay on metal topics.
That is what I want to hear about too!!

I manage a handful of mailing lists myself, and I also see accounts
get suspended if delivery fails or bounces multiple times, which just
needs a reset.  The problem of a domain being "blacklisted" is much
bigger and different IMO.

cheers,

ben



On 6/27/07, GHS <GHS at execpc.com> wrote:
> Just a guess here but I have had it happen.
>
> List sends out the post to you.
> Your isp subscribes to s service that blocks certain servers. (
> Supposedly used for spamming.)
> The List mail happens to be routed through one or more of those servers.
>
> The List gets back a bounce notification.
> After a number of bounces the Mailman deactivates the account.
>
> So it might not be you who is blacklisted but one of the servers in the
> route to you.
>
> I the same thing happened on theForge  to me about three years ago(?) it
> was while D Brown was still the listmom.
> Then the screening service essentially told theForge that for a "small"
> consideration it would be willing to unblock the server in question.
> They were told what to do with their extortionist selves.
>
> I then leaned on my ISP who as far as I can tell no longer subscribes to
> that service.
>
> Mike Graf