[SystemSafety] List Issues

[Paul Sherwood]

FWIW Codethink and various members of our team operate many lists, and 
have done for over a decade. Our view is that these problems are 
definitely caused by BTinternet, so we strongly support the suggestion 
that people avoid this provider.

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Paul

On 2018-09-25 08:19, Peter Bernard Ladkin wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> we have had quite a few problems with Olwen Morgan's mails, because
> they come from btinternet.com
> and apparently do not satisfy the DMARC policies of many mail-service
> providers (companies and
> organisations).
> 
> Last week, one mail from Olwen generated more than 90 bounces. Other
> of Olwen's mails generate 1.
> This morning, there were some 30+ "subscription disabled" notices from
> the Mailman list server. But
> I checked the admin interface and the addresses don't appear to be 
> disabled.
> 
> So I am sending this mail, and will ask the "disabled" mail recipients
> individually if they received
> it.
> 
> Meanwhile, I have asked Olwen to attempt to resolve the issues with
> btinternet. The easiest might
> well be for Olwen to use another provider for mails to this list.
> 
> This is not the first time we have had problems concerning btinternet.
> A couple years ago, just
> after Mike Parsons took over the SCSC tasks, for a long time the
> btinternet domain was rejecting all
> mails from the Uni Bielefeld domain, as well as from causalis's
> service provider, and we couldn't
> get them to accept such mails. So I had no email path to Mike or to
> three or four other colleagues.
> That went on from 2016 into 2017.
> 
> PBL
> 
> Prof. Peter Bernard Ladkin, Bielefeld, Germany
> MoreInCommon
> Je suis Charlie
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> 
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