For the past few days a number of addresses have been automatically
removed from the xmca mailing list, ostensibly for bouncing mail.
It turns out that the problem was a different list member (not one
of those being unsubscribed), who was filtering mail, and refusing
messages from those accounts.
Because of peculiar combination of this user's filtering setup and
the way the listserv works on our end, the refused messages have
been causing the removal of the refused recipient from the list.
I realize that is not particularly articulate, so let me make a list
of events:
* bjones@arisia.com sends a message to xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
* user@aol.com receives a copy of this message
* user@aol.com's mail client (outlook, eudora, etc.) has
been told to refuse email from bjones@arisia.com
* the mail client returns a message saying that mail from
bjones@arisia.com to user@aol.com is being refused.
* that message goes to weber.ucsd.edu where it is picked up by the
mailing list software.
* the mailing list software then unsubscribes bjones@arisia.com
from the xmca@weber.ucsd.edu mailing list.
The solution in this case was to remove user@aol.com from the list.
The lesson here is, if you're filtering email, please make sure that
the return messages go back to the address you're refusing and not
back to the mailing list.
Thanks,
bj
sometime xmca sysadmin
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