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Hello Moses,
I apologize for not replying sooner. Currently I'm on vacation in a remote location in Maine and gained internet >access this morning.
1) Why did I start receiving this message? Had I violated any rules of the list?
You have not violated any rules of the list. It is an indication that your domain, yahoo.com, is not accepting certain >messages.
2) What does "excessive bounces" mean? In my understanding, the message bounces if the >>email address is wrong. This cannot be the case here since my messages to the List were just >>responses to the given address.
A quick look at the log files show that Yahoo.com is not accepting particular messages from the list based upon >their determination that they cannot verify the original sender's domain being valid. This has nothing to do with the >Phys-l list itself. What the list does see is it cannot deliver those messages after many attempts and sends you the >message you received automatically.
It appears that the non-deliverable messages took your bounce number above 5 once again. You may read more >about the automatic bounce processing of the list here: http://web.mit.edu/lists/mailman/bounce.html
I may make a change to the way the list handles the "From: " field in messages sent from the list to individual users >to lessen the occurrence of these "errors". However, this is not something I wish to do with spotty access to the list.
3) Usually the sender gets automatically notified of any bounce of his/her message, with the reason for the bounce. I had never got any such individual notifications before the cited warning.
Since these bounces are a return of a message being delivered to your account but failing to succeed, you should >not receive any such notification.
4) Were my bounced messages still received by all the List members or were they directed back >>to me alone?
I believe all messages sent by you from your yahoo.com account have been received by all list members. You >may verify this yourself by comparing messages you sent to those found in the archives: www.phys-l.org/archives.
Please feel free to reply to this email address (phydocmarko@gmail.com) in the case you have other questions or >find some messages sent by you have not appeared in the archives.
Sincerely,
Mark Kimball, Administrator
phys-l.org