At 11:14 AM -0500 12/17/01, Jane-Kerin Moffat wrote:
>A different bounce problem:   Our listserv host automatically  runs
>periodic random probes and automatically deletes addresses
>registering 20 probe failures.  (Listowners have no control over
>this.)  Recently a subscriber at hotmail was automatically deleted
>due to probe failures, although I have never had a  problem in
>communicating directly with  that address  before, during, or after
>the probes,  nor with list mail to that address since reinstating it.
>My guess is that hotmail was reading and rejecting spam  the probes
>as spam.   If that is the case, can any of you suggest some way to
>prevent this from happening again?  Or have any of you another
>suggestion?

We've been experiencing a similar problem, where OOF messages trigger
probe failures.  So far the only solution we've come up with is to
resubscribe the address after the OOF is removed.

Sherry