Re: Kicked off the list again

[Chet Ramey]

> >> I was just kicked off bug-bash again, so if you sent a bug report
> >> Monday or Tuesday, resend it to chet@po.cwru.edu.  Thanks.
> >
> > I'm glad it's not just me.  The URL that I receive each time to
> > reactivate my subscription always fails; I have to login to the
> > mailman interface to reenable my subscription.
> 
> Me too.  In my case, mail delivery was disabled "due to excessive
> bounces".  I've had that happen with this list a few times, and also
> gotten probed by one other list once or twice.  The other list
> included the original bounce message in its probe; it said "no host
> named multivac.cwru.edu".  (My subscription address is on that
> machine.)  Weird.

I suspect (with a reasonable amount of certainty) that this is due to
mail being forged in your name.  I get dozens of bounce messages every
day from MAILER-DAEMONs all around the net telling me that delivery of
a message I never sent failed. 

Chet

-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet )

Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet@po.CWRU.Edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/