My new personal policy is to immediately suspend distributions to any
subscriber[s] whose MX host presents a bounce/warning from

  ISS.TECHOPS.VERIO.NET

These folks will nag you to death seveal times a day for days for just a
single message.

This also happens on other lists hosted at other listserv sites e.g.,
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The lesson to be learned: if you don't really and truly need a
third-party secondary MX host, then for goodness sake, then "dump" them.


/Pete

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