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Feejer/Weejer man

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What has happened to the micapeak mailing list? Haven't received an email for sometime now. Problems with site or is it on my end? Mike in Fremont, Ca.

 
I received this email:

ADMIN: email problems at micapeak.com

carlp.at.micapeak.dot.com wrote:

> Friends:

>

> As you may know, we recently moved micapeak.com from a local ISP to a

> hosted server at GoDaddy.com. Since the move, we have been

> experiencing a number of issues, most notably some misrepresentation

> of their rules and a lack of competent technical support. We are in

> the process of trying to sort these things out and return

> micapeak.com to the level of service we want to provide.

>

> Meanwhile, there are two issues that may affect your mailing list activity very directly.

>

> 1) Some mail that we send out through GoDaddy's mandatory outbound

> relay server gets "bounced" by that server, with no attempt to

> deliver it to the destination address (you). That means a) you never

> get the mail, since it's returned as a "hard bounce" undeliverable

> and B. if the (apparently) random occurrence of this happnes to hit

> your specific email address very many times, you MAY have your

> mailing list subscription suspended by mailman's automatic

> bounce-processing.

>

> 2) Out outbound e-mail is capped at 100,000 pieces per day. "No exceptions". Through the Christmas holiday, we hit this limit a

> couple times very late in the day. When this happens, the mail does

> get queued and delivered after midnight (Mountain time), when the new

> day's limit resets. However, yesterday Jan 3., we hit the limit at

> 6:08PM (Pacific) and today, Jan 4, we are at >88,000 pieces of mail

> before 1PM Pacific.

>

> What can you do?

>

> 1) If you receive a message saying your subscription is suspended for

> excessive bounces, please FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS in that emssage.

> It's not phishing - it's real. While I've been trying to manually

> reset all those affected, I may miss some or I may get called away.

> It won't hurt for you to follow the instructions, and it may help.

>

> 2) Try to be just a tiny bit less chatty on the mailing lists, for

> the time being. I don't want to discourage discussion, even in this

> bind. But if you'll just skip every 2nd irrelevant smart-alec reply

> you're tempted to post, that should do it.

>

> Please accept my apologies for the inconvenience, and rest assured

> that H Marc and myself are working to find a satisfactory resolution

> to this situation. I'll keep you posted.

 
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