There are lots of reasons people get removed from the mailing list, none of which have anything to do with being banned from the list. Sometimes mailboxes get filled up because people don't check them, sometimes ISP's like earthlink and aol think we are spam rather than an "opt-in" mailing list, and sometimes a persons ISP mail server may throw back an error. All of those cases throw back errors to the server and I occasionally go through that list of errors and manually delete email addresses which messages could not be delivered to. The primary reason for doing this is that when ISP's like AOL keep seeing mail trying to come into a bogus recipient addresses they tag it as spam and then blacklist us. It's a pain to then get off their black list. This is explained on the website under the email discussion faq.
Jon On 1/21/2011 5:34 PM, irox wrote:
Hi, in another thread I clicked on a link to a yahoo forum sub group, a number of the people in the yahoo forum thread used to contribute to the psubs mailing list and were complaining or commenting on being "banned" from the psubs mailing list. Other than one person (who made it clear he didn't want to contribute to psubs any more), I think these people are mistakenly thinking they have been blocked or banned from psubs. Most likely what has happen is their email provide/ISP has placed psubs.org on a spam Black-List. There are a number of different spam black list systems, most of which have a high rate of false positives (i.e. blocking a domain or email address from sending mail to their server when there is no spam). This has happened to me at least three times (earthlink.net is my ISP) and it has happened to other people I know as well (who thought they had been banned!). If you stop receiving email from psubs, and you send a test email and don't receive it, please don't assume that you are "banned". Contact your Jon, he will most likely have the bounced message that you didn't receive which will contain info about why you are not receiving psubs mail. You should also contact your ISP and ask them to unblock psubs.org email addresses. Jon, I hope you don't mind me directing people to contact you if they are not receiving psubs mail, I know you are busy! And thank you for all your work administrating the email list and website. Thanks! Ian.
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