Re: Who unsubscribed me from this list?
I did. =-)
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 10:06:43AM -0400, David P James wrote:
> I've not been receiving email from this list for a few days now. It
> appears I was unsubscribed somehow.
You were.
>From the log file:
Tue Oct 21 12:18:25 2003: debian-user:dpjames@rogers.com with 266/295
This means you bounced 266 messages in a 24 hour period in which 295
messages were sent out on the list. As this is an over 80% failure rate,
the bounce-handler decided to kick you off. Note that the current
bounce handler is much more lenient than the one which was in place
a couple of weeks back, with which you would have been kicked off after
only 40 bounces or so...
> I suppose I know why. My inbox was getting filled up and was probably
> bouncing messages. Before I was dropped, there was a thread about spam
> from this list. I've got that plus viruses it seems. I was getting
> upwards of 15MB of virus emails per day to a 10MB account. All it takes
> is to have a broken connection for half day (or night) when you're not
> arround to check on it for things to overfill. But my brother and
> father (same ISP) don't get that volume of virus emails since neither
> is subscribed to this list.
That's right...
<dpjames@rogers.com>
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> I'm not pleased that legit emails were probably being bounced but there
> is a degree of irony in being dropped from the very list that must have
> been the source of the address harvesting that led to the virus
> spamming in the first place.
We can't stop people who are infected from being subscribed on the list.
We don't control any of the mail->news gateways
The only thing we could change are the list archives, and no one seems to
agree on what should be done, whether addresses should be hidden or not,
whether addresses should be obfuscated and so on.
Cheers,
Pasc
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