Excessive bounces on this list

[Simon Slater]

On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 18:50 -0400, Jacques B. wrote:
> On 10/26/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 08:45 +1000, Simon Slater wrote:
> > > What couses bouncing, excessive or not?
> >
> > If it's not your mailbox filling up, and being unable to accept more
> > mail until you clear it, then it's your ISP not accepting mail (perhaps
> > for similar reasons, but not your mailbox individually - such as their
> > entire mail file system being too full or too busy, or implementing bad
> > thought out anti-spam procedures).  A third reason might be something
> > between your ISP and the list, but I suspect the second reason is
> > probably the one.
> >
> > About your only recourse for the second reason (it's the ISP), is to
> > change where you receive your mail.  Sign up for another mail account,
> > somewhere, and use that for receiving list mail.  Otherwise, you'd have
> > to try and convince your ISP to lift their game (good luck with that).
> >
> >
> > --
> I suggest looking at Gmail.  I use it for this list and a few others.
> Once you catch on to the concept of labels it's smooth sailing.  I
> love that I can search my emails with Google.  And it does an
> excellent job in threading all the messages so it's easy to read an
> entire thread.
> 
> Jacques B.
> 
Thanks Tim, Harald & Jaques for the info.  Just on the technical side, what
actually causes the bounce?  If my allocation on the ISP is full I
understand that.  Otherwise is it their spam filtering (like in the
concurrent iptables thread)?...

-- 
Regards
Simon