Administrivia: The "bounces" list

["Paul M. Moriarty" <pmm@igtc.com>]

igtc.com hosts 3 very high volume lists that generate about 100,000 outgoing
messages per week.  As you might imagine, bouncing/returned e-mail is a
pretty common event.

If your ISP _ever sends back a bounce message with the line "user unknown",
off you go to the bounces list.

If your ISP imposes quotas on your mailbox and you go over quota for a day
or so (meaning every message sent to you from the list gets returned), off
you go to the bounces list.

You get on the bounces list because e-mail being sent to you is bouncing
back to igtc.com for some reason.  Due to the volume of bounced mail (about
200 per day) received here at igtc.com, I cannot investigate each bounce
individually.

Hope this helps clarify.

- -> Paul <-

S. Joseph Mann writes:
> Folks,
> 
> Forgive this test. It is to see if this message comes back to me via the
> mailing list.   I've received a number of messages from
> Majordomo@igtc.com, the site that hosts our venerable list.  These
> messages have stated that mail being sent to me from the GLX mailing list
> is bouncing.  Well, it's the only mail that's bouncing.  The system
> automatically cut me off and added me to a "bounces" list last night.  I
> have re-subscribed to the GLX list and unsubscribed to the bounces list.
> I'll see what happens.
> 
> Has any one else experienced something similar??
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Joe