On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 21:23 -0400, Erik Hemdal wrote: > > On Mon April 24 2006 15:59, Steven Pasternak wrote: > > > I WAS gone for a week in Florida over spring break, could that > > > be the reason? > > > -Steven > > > > Did your mailbox at your ISP fill up? If you don't download > > regularly, you can fill up a mailbox which will cause subsequent > > mail to be bounced back to sender, which could invoke > > subscription suspension on mail-lists. > > -- > > Claude Jones > > Bluemont, VA, USA > > If you have a POP3 account, which is what Bellsouth used back when I was > down south, you can fill up a mailbox pretty readily, especially on this > list. To prevent this, you can usually suspend delivery for a while if you > know you'll be away for a while; you might have to unsubscribe and > re-subscribe depending on the list. Different mail list managers do things > in their own ways. Red Hat uses mailman - which allows you to suspend delivery, and lets you suspend delivery for *all* redhat lists you are subscribed to at once. Another option is .Mac - at the beginning of this month, I went to Disneyland for just over a week - and my .Mac account did not fill up (I checked periodically so I could suspend delivery if it did). gmail also has a lot of space, but they seem to do funny stuff with headers that mess up threads sometimes - so I don't use it anymore. It also did some funny stuff where messages I sent weren't in the thread. .Mac, while not free, doesn't mess with stuff.
