[ale] Re: mindspring accounts bouncing

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Sunday 25 July 2004 09:50 pm, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> On Sunday 25 July 2004 06:33 pm, Geoffrey wrote:
> | It seems that a ton of mindspring accounts subscribed to the list have
> | been unsubb'ed because of excessive bounces. Might this be related to
> | the aforementioned auth. issue???
>
> Dunno. But this message from Geoffrey was time-stamped 6:32:22 pm today
> and seven minutes later I got this message from the ALE List:
>
> Your membership in the mailing list Ale has been disabled due to
> excessive bounces The last bounce received from you was dated
> 25-Jul-2004.  You will not get any more messages from this list until
> you re-enable your membership.  You will receive 3 more reminders like
> this before your membership in the list is deleted.

I wonder if the "bounce" messages generated by mydoom could be fooling the ale 
mail server.

Michael