On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Jane-Kerin Moffat wrote:

> A subscriber to one of my listserv lists is being automatically
> removed from another listserv listserv list maintained  on the same
> server for the same organization because, for some reason AOL is
> sending back deliver error responses to listserv probes.   In fact he
> is getting all his mail- including all the mail from the listserv in
> question.   Aol techies can shed no light on the problem.
>
> Has anyone here had problems with list mail sent to aol?  Can you
> shed any light on them?  I frequently get notices of delivery
> failures for my aol subscribers, but --unlike the above case--my
> subscribers' problems  seem to straighten out before  cutoff
> (delivery errors reported for  a period  of 5 days  or more,  or when
> 20 delivery  errors have  been received,  whichever occurs  first).
> I also hear horrendous complaints about aol non-delivery of listmail
> from yahoogroups owners--unfortunately their reports yield more heat
> than light.

My response to such situations is simple. The subscriber should
switch providers to one that operates reliably.