The Vintage Triumph Register has been a long time supporter of the team.net Triumph hobbyist listserves run by Mark Bradakis and continues to support Mark's efforts to help the community share information. Recently, several people have written me to let me know of issues in receiving list mail. While VTR supports the lists, it does not operate them; they were created by Mark and continued to be owned and administered by Mark.
I am posting this note in VTR's own forum to provide an easily referenced reply to the inquiries to the people asking about team.net status. If I get additional information from Mark, I will amend this posting.
Several list members, all with AOL email addresses indicate they can post but not receive messages. This would tell me it is an AOL problem, not a team.net problem. AOL is filtering the mail that comes INTO its servers, identifies AutoX mail as spam, and blackholes it.
An excerpt from a mailing information website:
Problem 5 - Mailing Lists: Because Internet mailing lists involve sending a single message to a lot of email addresses, they come dangerously close to unsolicited bulk email, a scourge of the Internet. It can be very difficult for a computer to tell what is a valid mailing list, which the recipient might be interested in, and what is unwanted commercial email. If a mailing list server sends too much mail in too short a time to a number of AOL members, AOL will consider it questionable and delete it.
Solution: The mailing list owner should ensure that their subscriber list is current and properly maintained. If this doesn't work, the mailing list server administrator should reconfigure their server to deliver messages to AOL more slowly. If this doesn't work, the administrator (preferably not the list owner, however) can try contacting AOL at <
postmaster@aol.com>, and asking that their mailing list server be exempted from AOL's limitations. However, this recourse should only be used if the first two solutions, which are both signs of responsible administration, don't work.
That is from:
http://www.massmailsoftware.com/ezine/past/2003-05-28.htmWhat is likely happening is this... AutoX sends ALL AT ONCE thousands of emails when someone makes a post. That's what any sort of listserve software is designed to do. Probably there are hundreds of AUTOX subscribers using AOL. AOL sees the same message coming in for hundreds of it's recipients, deems it spam, and blackholes (deletes without sending) the message. The same thing happens when we send a VTR eUpdate out to our members. Some AOL people get it, some don't.
A rather simple solution to the problem would be to obtain a gMail address from Google,
http://www.gmail.com, and use it for list traffic. It appears that gMail users are receiving list traffic normally.
If anyone has suggestions, kindly comment in this forum or email me directly.
Wishing you safe motoring,
VINTAGE TRIUMPH REGISTER
Blake J. Discher, President
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