[ale] missed/bounced messages

[Sean Kilpatrick]

Last night I got an automatic message from ezmlm, which
handles the mail for this list, pointing out that 16 seemingly
random messages from Ale to me had been bounced by my ISP
since Sept. 26.
I called tech support at Earthlink and got no help.  Any ideas
on why roughly two Ale messages were bounced each day? I checked
the archives and can see no obvious pattern to the bounced messages.
I cannot identify the listed URL: 207.69.200.36

Sean


The relevant part of the message from Ale looks like this:

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Here are the message numbers:


   13657     13640     13650    13635
   13636     13647     13661    13658
   13637     13646     13662    13652
   13641     13654     13642    13655


--- Enclosed is a copy of the bounce message I received.


Return-Path: <>
Received: (qmail 16505 invoked for bounce); 26 Sep 2002 23:59:33 -0000
Date: 26 Sep 2002 23:59:33 -0000
From: MAILER-DAEMON at mail.room17.com
To: ale at ale.org
To: ale-return-13657- at ale.org
Subject: failure notice


Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mail.room17.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.


<kilpatms at mindspring.com>:
Connected to 207.69.200.36 but sender was rejected.
Remote host said: 550 Dialups/open relays blocked. Contact 
<openrelay at abuse.earthlink.net>

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