[Ansteorra] What exactly are "bounces" on the list

[Emma de Fetherstan]

A couple of days ago, a great number of people were unsubscribed from
various Ansteorra.org mailing lists. This happens automatically after you
exceed the "bounce" threshhold; people who did not quite exceed the
threshhold no doubt got mail warning that mail to you was bouncing. (Which,
yes, might get bounced itself, but clearly not always!)

The people so affected are those whose mail is ultimately handled by
yahoo.com. This includes att.net and sbcglobal.net, but also affected
hotmail.com and msn.com email addresses as well. For whatever reason, those
domains started refusing all incoming mail from our mailing lists. I did
file a support ticket with Dreamhost, our service provider, and I am
certain they are getting the issue resolved.

-Emma


On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Kerry Pratt <kpratt at sw.rr.com> wrote:

> When the list mailer daemon tries to send an email to you it will "bounce"
> if it is returned as undeliverable by any of
> the servers that carry it to you. USUALLY, this happens at the server that
> belongs to your Internet Service Provider but
> not always. There is quite a bit of tolerance built into the system and,
> if I recall correctly, it takes a few days of
> bounces before your mail delivery is turned off. You may want to go to the
> Ansteorran List Server and log into the
> system and make sure that all of your settings, primarily your email
> address, is correct on that page. It could also be
> that your provider has blacklisted our email server and bounces messages
> from us automatically. This happened with AOL
> about a year ago and there is nothing that we can do to restore service to
> an ISP that has blocked our listserv other
> than put in helpdesk tickets with Dreamhost to petition your provider to
> restore service.
>
> William Cameron deBlakstan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ansteorra-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org [mailto:
> ansteorra-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of Kristi Johnson
> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2014 4:23 PM
> To: ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org
> Subject: [Ansteorra] What exactly are "bounces" on the list
>
> To the email list moderators or any one that can answer my question:
>
> I received an email (I am assuming an automated one) that said I had
> excessive "bounces" on the list.  To the best of my
> knowledge I have not been posting or marking as spam any emails from the
> list especially on the day listed in the
> email.  What could be causing this and how do I remedy it?
>
> Thanks for whatever help you can give me,
>
> Thora O.
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