Good morning Joan, What happens if you post your reply to the list or board rather than replying to the person directly? I bet that mail is getting through because they would have whitelisted the list or board address when they subscribed. Regards, Maurice French Translation Coordinator for Legacy Family Tree We are helping change the world of genealogy ! ----- Original Message ----- From: <listowners-request@rootsweb.com> To: <listowners@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 3:00 AM Subject: LISTOWNERS Digest, Vol 7, Issue 90 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Pet peeve time... (JYoung6180@aol.com) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 16:54:26 -0400 (EDT) > From: JYoung6180@aol.com > Subject: [LO] Pet peeve time... > To: listowners-L@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <42964.46c435f3.3d18d882@aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > I seldom post a "pet peeve" but this happens frequently enough to comment > on. > > I get emails directed to my list admin address or to me directly as board > admin or as co-CC for a county GenWeb site...and take my time to find an > answer for the person and send it to them only to get a bounce or request > to > verify that I'm not sending spam (which I will NOT do)...current example: > <mrpww@aol.com>: host core-mka003a.r1000.mail.aol.com[172.29.102.76] > said: > 554 > 5.7.1 Your mail could not be delivered because the recipient is only > accepting mail from specific email addresses. If you feel you received > this in error, please contact the recipient directly and ask them to > check > their email settings. (in reply to end of DATA command) > > ...I have to laugh because I cannot contact the person directly to have > them check their mail settings because the only address I have for the > person > is BOUNCING! Duh! > > And how much would you like to bet that this person will probably complain > loud and long that they wrote to me for help and I NEVER replied to them? > I'd bet on it. > > I'm guessing I'm not the only admin this happens to. > > Joan > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the LISTOWNERS list administrator, send an email to > LISTOWNERS-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the LISTOWNERS mailing list, send an email to > LISTOWNERS@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LISTOWNERS-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of LISTOWNERS Digest, Vol 7, Issue 90 > ***************************************** >