[ale] being cut off from list

[Nathan J. Underwood]

Just a thought (I'm lazy too).  Buy a domain name, doesn't even have to 
be a good one, just a domain name.  If your registrar doesn't provide 
the functionality (most do / should), find somewhere to do mail 
forwarding (everything @yourdomain.com) for you for cheap.  Have your 
regular e-mail as something like john_doe at yourdomain.com, and setup a 
filter sending any mail TO that e-mail address (it helps to make it 
sortof obtuse) to your 'read me' folder, and everything else to SPAM. 
If you have subscription accounts (like ALE) that aren't really in your 
'read me' folder (i.e. personal mail from family, friends, etc., but not 
SPAM), create a folder and a rule for them.  Note, that you're actually 
getting everything AT yourdomain.com, but filtering on the to address. 
Anyway, when you switch ISP's, just change the e-mail that it's being 
forwarded to.  Anyway, just a thought.

H. Adrin Story wrote:

> It happened to me twice.   the last time I thought it was because I use 
> M$ to check a lot of my email.   Since I changed my subscription to my 
> Linux email address I have not had a problem.  seriously though.   I 
> think us guys that still use mindspring accounts are about to get 
> screwed again.   Some time ago they changed the email box size from 
> 10Megs to 5 Megs.    Last weekend they change the login on the email.  
> You are now required to authenticate to the server.   I wasn't 
> before??   I went 2 days wondering why I could only check email on 
> www.springmail.com but, my home email server had no problem with email.  
> Good thing it hapen on the weekend,  I dont' get spare time to work on 
> problems like that during the week.
> 
> Now,  Really thinking about it,  With all the spam controls they are 
> trying to implement.   I willing to bet that some spam detector is going 
> off and then blocking all email from ale.org  based on the number of 
> connections to the email server at anyone given time, (a email flood 
> detector?).
> 
> Speedfactory is looking very temping with the specials they are running 
> right now.   I am lazy.   I don't want to go through a email 
> subscribtion change right now.
> 
> Adrin
> 
> 
> Steven A. DuChene wrote:
> 
>> Several times during the past few weeks I have gotten notices from the 
>> ALE
>> mailing list software that ale mail has been bouncing to my mindspring 
>> account
>> and thus my receiving of ale list mail has been discontinued. I then 
>> have to
>> respond to this message within three days to get it turned back on.
>>
>> This is getting to be a pain in the neck and I don't have any problems 
>> with
>> other mailing lists I am on just the ALE one.
>>
>> Right now I am currently in limbo as it is refusing my attempts to get it
>> turned back on because it says I am beyond the three day time limit. I 
>> tried
>> to subscribe to the list agin but it refuses to do that either as it says
>> I am already subscribed.
>>
>> ARGH!
>>  
>>
> 
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