Incountered a  problem in July with Mindspring / Earthlink blocking listserv messages from the particular listserv mail server domain.  They were "categorizing" the server as an "open relay server" meaning (I think) that they thought it allowed untraceable mail to be routed through the server.  Other mail from institution domains other than the listserv's worked fine.  Resolution was a painful process, getting their tech people in abuse to test the domain and unblock it eventually.  Hope this helps shed some light.  Another note:  initially bounced messages were showing up within the listserv process, but apparently it got tired of them after a while and just seemed to ignore them.  Forgive the lack of "technical detail" in this, I'm not the owner / administrator, just trying to learn, after the above experience.  -Rick

Stan Horwitz wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Lynne Seamans wrote:
>
> > OK, I got a list owner who says she has a subscriber who NEVER gets any
> > email from the list, but yet, if she sends directly to him at the same
> > address, he gets it.
> >
> > The address looks like it might be a "Free" email account, but not hotmail.
> > Is there some log or something I can check to see if they are blocking our
> > listserv emails, but not individual emails to him?
> >
> > Is this even remotely coherent?  I'm suffering from first week of semester
> > trauma :-)
>
> I know the feeling. In this type of situation, its almost always on the
> subscriber's mail distribution software that's at fault. I suggest you
> have the subscriber contact his or her ISP to discuss this problem.