thanks for that. you made me feel a bit better. robynstillbouncing.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susie Zada" <szada@zades.com.au> To: <AUS-VIC-GEELONG-DISTRICT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 7:10 AM Subject: Re: [GEELONG] General Comment - OT but useful! > Hi Folks, > > Just to clarify for folks on why they may be bounced off some lists and not > others - not specific to Geelong & District but could help some people. > > Firstly, a REALLY helpful web site to add to your Favourites / Bookmarks ... > > http://passwordcentral.rootsweb.com/ > > Here you can check which lists you're subbed to - a good idea is to do this > when you are subbed to all the lists you want, then you receive an email > with this list that you can file away for future use. > > About getting bounced off some lists and not others .... > > Of course this can depend on how busy a list is - obviously the busier the > list the quicker your bounces exceed the "maximum" allowed and you're > automatically unsubbed. > > The recent bigpond problems just made it impossible to keep up with as a > List Admin! > > In addition to how busy a list is, a List Admin can also change the DEFAULT > number of bounces allowed before a member is bounced off. A lot of List > Admins don't even realise that's an option! Anyway, the Geelong & District > (and Bellarine Peninsula) List isn't too busy to make it impossible under > normal circumstances, so I've increased the > number of bounces allowed to 12 for List Mode and 8 for Digest Mode - I've > found that this normally allows enough time for ISP problems / hiccups to > get sorted out. The number of bounce flags doesn't keep accumulating > forever - after a period of days/number of bounces (?) it resets to zero. > > Most times it doesn't cause too much trauma by increasing the number of > bounces but I must admit the last couple of weeks have been a right royal > headache - was almost tempted to reset the max bounces back to the default > (which is think is 4 and 3) but I know so many people on this list I feel > guilty if I don't do all I can to help!! > > Also, don't forget you can always check the Mailing List Archives to see > what you might have missed .......... > > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/aus-vic-geelong-district > > Hope that explanation helps some ........... Susie Z, List Admin > > > > > i have been booted off birmingham and ontario lists because i have > > > generated an excessive amount of bounced emails. too many concurrent > > > connections. what i cannot understand is why i have only been deleted > off > > > those listings and not others. i am on many lists. bigpond? aagghh. of > > > what? > > > robyn shaw. toowoomba.qld. > > > ==== AUS-VIC-GEELONG-DISTRICT Mailing List ==== > Geelong & District and Bellarine Indexes : > http://www.zades.com.au/geelong/gdbksrc1.asp > http://www.zades.com.au/bellhs/bpnmsrc1.asp > >