RE: [PHP] I am not receiving any e-mail from the list...

From: parasane@gmail.com > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:10, Richard <richard@php.net> wrote: >> >> I had this (I think) recently; mail simply stopped coming from the >> list and I can't remember unsubscribing (though that's not saying >> much...). I simply re-subscribed and all was dandy again. > > Quite possibly caused by malformed headers or SPAM being rejected > by the filters and bounced back to the list. Two bounces and a tracer > is sent. If that fails as well (and they usually do), you're > unsubscribed without further notice. It happens to me all the time on > the Windows list (now that I think about it, I think it happened > again). I occasionally see the tracers from various lists, particularly beginners@perl.org. It seems some list server software fails to clean up the routing headers occasionally. Our boundary spam filters reject them as having been forwarded too many times, indicating a possible mail loop. I believe I have been unsubscribed from more than one list for this reason. Bob McConnell