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.