Excessive bounces on this list

[Jacques B.]

On 10/26/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 08:45 +1000, Simon Slater wrote:
> > What couses bouncing, excessive or not?
>
> If it's not your mailbox filling up, and being unable to accept more
> mail until you clear it, then it's your ISP not accepting mail (perhaps
> for similar reasons, but not your mailbox individually - such as their
> entire mail file system being too full or too busy, or implementing bad
> thought out anti-spam procedures).  A third reason might be something
> between your ISP and the list, but I suspect the second reason is
> probably the one.
>
> About your only recourse for the second reason (it's the ISP), is to
> change where you receive your mail.  Sign up for another mail account,
> somewhere, and use that for receiving list mail.  Otherwise, you'd have
> to try and convince your ISP to lift their game (good luck with that).
>
>
> --

I suggest looking at Gmail.  I use it for this list and a few others.
Once you catch on to the concept of labels it's smooth sailing.  I
love that I can search my emails with Google.  And it does an
excellent job in threading all the messages so it's easy to read an
entire thread.

Jacques B.