[Harp-L] accounts suspended due to bounces, explanation below

[Peter Brunelli]

Hi guys,
What is the procedure for managing the subscription? I’d like to get the digest instead of individual posts if possible.

Thanks,
Pete Brunelli

> On Oct 1, 2025, at 09:34, owner-harp-l at xxxxx wrote:
> 
> gmail has decided that harp-l is sending unwanted spam to our gmail
> subscribers.  When messages bounce back to us as uindelivered our mail
> program suspends the account after a number of bounces.  I cannot recall
> the threshold, let's say 5.  The accounts don't go away the mail stops
> being sent to them.  I've just manually reset 179 gmail accounts to mail
> status.  We'll see if gmail calms down.  I have read their help online for
> this situation, they claim it usually gets better.  In the meantime I will
> work on getting our server provider to update our authentication for our
> e-mail.
> 
> Gmail is not the only provider we are having trouble with, yahoo won't
> deliver our messages but they don't bounce it back so no account reset.
> Comcast is also trouble.  There are maybe 3-4 isps involved but it's
> actually less than that because yahoo runs other isps email as well as
> their own yahoo branded version.  working on it, harp-l-listowner
>