Re: [LARTC] mailling list newbie question

[Henk Hesselink <lartc@anda.nl>]

This is the problem.  I see it happening in my logfiles.
I sent the list maintainer a couple of mails about this
about 6 weeks ago, but never heard anything back.  I've
just resigned myself to reenabling my account every 2-3
weeks...

Henk

Joe Nuts wrote:
> My guess is that the problem is related to mail servers that 'bounce'
> back emails that have virus attachments. I get the notifications about
> once a month it seems.
> I assume that someone is sending an email with a virus attachment to
> the list, the list tries to send the email to everyone (like it
> should), some servers bounce it back to the sender (the list) for
> having a virus attachment, and the list receives it as a bounce, and
> adds it to a counter.
> I might be completely off with this guess, but if that's the case, it
> would seem to me that the only viable option is to put some logic in
> the list 'bounce' engine to recognize an undeliverable bounce versus
> an undeliverable due to a virus.
> Just my thoughts.
> -Joe
> 
> On 5/6/05, Andy Furniss <andy.furniss@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> 
>>Kenneth Kalmer wrote:
>>
>>>On 5/6/05, Marcelo Araujo <chelupulus@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi.
>>>>
>>>>Why i receive this?
>>>>
>>>>this is not the first time i receive.
>>>>
>>>>"Your membership in the mailing list LARTC has been disabled due to
>>>>excessive bounces The last bounce received from you was dated
>>>>29-Apr-2005."
>>>>
>>>>Can anybody tell me?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks a lot.!
>>>>
>>>>Marcelo
>>>
>>>
>>>I second, seems to be a gmail thing. I've contacted both the mailing
>>>list owner and gmail about the issue and have had no response from
>>>either.
>>>
>>>Has anybody on the list seen some strange mails coming from members
>>>with gmail accounts?
>>
>>No - I got one of these on the 29th and am not using gmail.
>>
>>Andy.
>>
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