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.