Re: [projectvrm] VRM List Housekeeping

[Mary Hodder < >]

Dean,

I received this, and watched the past couple of days.

I seem to get email one at a time and not in clumps.

AFAIKT I'm getting all the mail though unless I compared my inbox to the VRM 
archives, I wouldn't know for sure.

mary

On Dec 14, 2013, at 3:35 PM, Dean Landsman wrote:

> Hello, everyone,
> 
> A few hours of tinkering, researching, testing, tweaking, and we now 
> believe that Doc's email problem is due to a false positive spam report (or 
> a subsequent blacklisting) on his email filter at the Berkman server.  
> 
> Through other routes (the web being ever so circuitous) Doc is now 
> receiving all the messages.
> 
> In checking the Berkman listserv we discovered some other troubling 
> anomalies, such as seeing an abnormal number of bounced emails,  Making 
> this even more peculiar was how many of the bounce reports were from 
> regular contributors. Adding to the madness was seeing a bounce report, 
> then looking at my own incoming mail to check the list and to see that one 
> or two reportedly bounced addresses were at the same moment responding to 
> very recent messages.
> 
> This is among the reasons we believe the root of Doc's mail problem is at 
> the Berkman mail server.  List messages show us false positives on email 
> addresses from which mail is indeed being received (and responded to, too).
> 
> Doc & I will pursue this further.  But here's how you can help.  Please see 
> if list messages are arriving in clumps on your email client.  Please also 
> respond to this message (on the list) when you see it.  I will send direct 
> emails to some of the apparent false positive bounce reports asking if they 
> see any oddities in their list email,
> 
> And please report any list oddities you may be seeing or experiencing, so 
> when we escalate this to the Berkman Server Geeks Patrol, we let them know 
> of any and all peculiarities or failures in our midst.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --Dean