[TowerTalk] Bounces replies--- tnx to all

[Guy Olinger, K2AV]

If geo888 at cs.com was in the user database, the reflector software 
would have cancelled the address itself.

This problem is because someone registered a forwarding address as the 
user to Towertalk, and then abandoned the address being forwarded TO.

Towertalk sends reflector mail as if it came directly from the poster. 
The forwarder (whatever it is, could be qth.net or arrl.net or one of 
many others) sends it to geo888 at cs.com. Cs.com gets the message and 
dispatches mail to the original sender that the account bounced.

The only way to identify the culprit is for the admin to send a 
uniquely identified message to ALL the subscribers on towertalk, one 
at a time, and see which one creates a bounce on geo888 at cs.com.

This is a very time-consuming job for the admin.

For all I know this is going on now, maybe twenty at a time.

I've done admin on a SMALL list and had this problem trying to find a 
subscription to an alias so that the wife of a silent key would quit 
receiving email. Took me a week to find the subscription.

73, Guy.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan C. Zack" <k7acz at cox.net>
To: <jimjarvis at comcast.net>
Cc: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Bounces replies--- tnx to all


> It's been like that for months.  With every post you get the 
> geo888 at cs.com bounce message.  Just something to ignore until its 
> fixed.
>
> jimjarvis at comcast.net wrote:
>
>> Guys...
>>
>> Thanks to all who responded with thoughts on why I see
>> the bounce from geo888 at cs.com.
>>
>> In short, the reason is that geo888.cs.com is still registered as a 
>> user,
>> but the address is no longer valid.  Because that's true, he can't 
>> get in to delete himself.
>>
>> So....there's some admin work required to eliminate this minor
>> nuisance.  In any case, I appreciate the feedback.
>>
>> n2ea
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