Another list subscriber who uses Verizon recently reported a problem with
his subscription.  Although actual list emails would get through fine for a
while, the Verizon system was somehow rejecting periodic "probe" messages
from the list server.  Somehow, the email software packages on the two
servers don't quite want to talk to each other in that specific case.
  My recommendation to that subscriber, as a temporary workaround, was to
obtain a free account at Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail, or wherever, and use that
for their list subscription.  Some services might even allow that account to
forward everything to their verizon.net email box.

David Gillett



On 7 Dec 2005 at 20:03, Toomas Piibe wrote:

> Could be that it is their spam filters. PCBUILD and PCSOFT
> are moderated lists what means that it could take hours or even
> days to get message accepted. Could be that anti-spam filters
> don't like that.
>
> Toomas
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Daly" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 7:01 PM
> Subject: [PCSOFT] Server Problem
>
> >I was finally able to get a fast internet connection last June, 2004....it is
> >DLS with Verizon.net.  Since I've had this service I've had problems
> >receiving PCBUILD and PCSOFT.  The digests are often not received and I
> >receive a notice that I have been dropped from the list.  I have called
> >Verizon many times and they want to blame anything and everything.  But they
> >have not solved the problem.  Finally I esculated this to Customer Relations
> >at Verizon and they have put me in touch with someone who will solve the
> >problem for me.  The explanation I've received is that there is a "latency"
> >problem between the [log in to unmask] server and the Verizon
> >server and there is nothing they can do about it.  I really don't understand
> >how this explains that very often I don't receive the digest(s) from the
> >group.  Does anyone have advice or suggestions?

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