On Fri, 15 Mar 1996, Anita Cohen-Williams wrote: > I was getting bounced mail from my HISTARCH list in my mailbox, but now the > list is getting hit. The mail is bouncing from a domain unknown to the system > (it keeps saying illegal host/domain found). The domain given is > nation.shareworld. com. > > For a while it was being bounced from red.ccsnet.com, but I emailed their > postmaster, and while I got no reply, the bounce is now coming directly from > nation... Each time someone posts a note to the list, a bounce shows up ON the > list as well. > > I suspect that someone on the list has forwarded their mail to a non-active > host. How can I find this address and stop the bounces? TIA. > > Anita Cohen-Williams; Reference Services; Hayden Library > Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1006 > Tel: (602) 965-4579 FAX: (602) 965-9169 > [log in to unmask] Owner: HISTARCH, SPANBORD, SUB-ARCH It is possible that a mailloop has been created. In this case there must be subscriber whose address bounces the mail back to the list instead to owner-list address. Check some of the error message in their header and see what is common. I had a case when address in *.nl was bouncing the mail back to the list. Interesting to note was then even messages sent to members in the USA were going through *.nl site, so that is how I figured out which address was in question and I set that particular address to NOMAIL. In few hours (until all the messages initiated got cleared) the bouncing stopped. I was very brief above, if you wish contact me privately and forward me some of the errors you get so I might help you and see if there is similarity with my case of few months back. sincerely, ========= List Owner: ALBANIAN, AlbaNews, AlbStud-L (Alba-Net) =========== Mentor Cana *---> Graduate Student <----*| Stevens-Tech, Hoboken, NJ, USA | "Computing with NO electrons, [log in to unmask] | ONLY light" - (?) http://menger.eecs.stevens-tech.edu/~cana/