Membership disabled?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 03:56:47PM -0500, Charles Howse wrote:
> Hi,
> I received the following from owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> earlier today:
> 
> --------------
> Your membership in the mailing list freebsd-questions has been
> disabled due to excessive bounces The last bounce received from you
> was dated 09-Oct-2003.  You will not get any more messages from this
> list until you re-enable your membership.  You will receive 3 more
> reminders like this before your membership in the list is deleted.
> 
> [snip]
> --------------
> 
> I did everything in the instructions to re-enable my membership, it all
> failed.
> I finally un-subscribed, and re-subscribed, and now I am receiving the
> list again.
> 
> I was wondering what caused this msg to be sent to me?
> I get my mail from my ISP's pop server, I haven't received any
> notifications of my emails to the list bouncing.
> If mail from the list to me bounces off my ISP's SMTP server, it's not
> my fault.
> 
> What's up with this?
> 
> 

According to the error message, mails from the list to you were being
bounced by your SMTP server.  Since this causes undue load on the
FreeBSD mail servers, you were removed from the list to prevent the
problem from continuing.

Complain to your ISP about the problem.

Kris
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