In the run up to the last RIPE meeting, I stopped receiving e-mails from the various RIPE lists to which I am subscribed. I thought it odd that the lists should go quiet at such a time, tried resubscribing to find I was still subscribed and eventually stumbled across 'disabled', which all my lists were. I think that this procedure, of disabling subscriptions without warning, without explanation and for no reason apparent to the subscriber offers room for improvement. I cannot recall ever seeing any announcement about this, at subscription time or later, and having trawled the RIPE web site, I am still none the wiser as to how and why subscriptions get disabled. Even if I were, I imagine that there is nothing on this earth I can do to stop it happening, since I did nothing that I know of to make it happen the first time. Any thoughts? Tom Petch
--On 24 June 2009 11:19:08 +0200 tp <ripe@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
I cannot recall ever seeing any announcement about this, at subscription time or later, and having trawled the RIPE web site, I am still none the wiser as to how and why subscriptions get disabled. Even if I were, I imagine that there is nothing on this earth I can do to stop it happening, since I did nothing that I know of to make it happen the first time.
Any thoughts?
The mailman mailing list software will automatically disable addresses from which more than a certain number of messages have bounced. This normally happens (although there are other causes) if a particular mailbox has exceeded its quota or if an account has been disabled without the address first being unsubscribed from the list. If a particular address is bouncing messages then there is no way for the mailman software to notify the subscriber that that address is being disabled. James
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