On 10/26/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 08:45 +1000, Simon Slater wrote: > > What couses bouncing, excessive or not? > > If it's not your mailbox filling up, and being unable to accept more > mail until you clear it, then it's your ISP not accepting mail (perhaps > for similar reasons, but not your mailbox individually - such as their > entire mail file system being too full or too busy, or implementing bad > thought out anti-spam procedures). A third reason might be something > between your ISP and the list, but I suspect the second reason is > probably the one. > > About your only recourse for the second reason (it's the ISP), is to > change where you receive your mail. Sign up for another mail account, > somewhere, and use that for receiving list mail. Otherwise, you'd have > to try and convince your ISP to lift their game (good luck with that). > > > -- I suggest looking at Gmail. I use it for this list and a few others. Once you catch on to the concept of labels it's smooth sailing. I love that I can search my emails with Google. And it does an excellent job in threading all the messages so it's easy to read an entire thread. Jacques B.
