NYCkayaker NYC Water Trail / East River Access

[Rich Kulawiec]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 01:02:19AM -0500, Erik Baard wrote:
> (Note -- I sent a reply to John right away, but the list serv -- yes, using
> the term generically -- rejects baard.com, aol.com, and other domains. Argh.

We're not blocking AOL.  (I know some of the people on their email team
and consider them to be some of the best at any large ISP -- a marked
change from five years ago.  Besides, if we blocked AOL, then all the
users who get personal mail through here would likely be lined up outside,
eager to find a new use for their rescue ropes and the nearest sturdy
tree. ;-) )  We're not blocking baard.com either -- one of the things
that we do is keep track of mailing list members' domains in order to
avoid doing that by accident.  That's not a foolproof process yet,
but we're getting better at it.

Once an incoming message makes it past all the anti-spam checks in
the mail system here (which yours do) it has to pass the checks on
the mailing list itself (as set by us and each list's owner -- in this
case, Jeremy) like size limits, attachment types, and so on.  If your
message is too big or has disallowed attachments or is badly malformed,
then it may not go out to the list.  It looks to me like you sent a
message to nyckayaker from erik at baard.com on December 11 at about 1630 EST;
please send that exact same message with any/all attachments to
nyckayaker-owner at rockandwater.net so that we can look at it and figure
out why it caused indigestion.  Same for anyone else that is sending
traffic that doesn't show up; all of this gets logged, so given a sample
and a rough idea of the date/time, we can usually diagnose and
solve issues fairly quickly -- but ya gotta tell us there's a problem,
because it's not always obvious.

---Rsk