Hi, As many of you know, the FML is delivered to most subscribers by a list exploder at CUNY, courtesy of Bill Gruber. One of the facts of life of mailing lists is bounces - when a user goes away, buggy mailers, broken links, quota exceeded, decomissioned machines etc. Up until now Bill has been manually monitoring the bounces coming back to cuny, and forwarding those bounces that have occured several times, and seem permanent, to me. Then I issue an unsubscribe request. And occasionally we goof, and unsubscribe someone who has a temporary mail problem, and they get the unsubscribe notice and get understandably puzzled (and sometimes even quite angry at me). Now that we're over 500 subscribers, this is getting unacceptably time-consuming. Particularly for Bill. Effective immediately, Bill will be unsubscribing bouncing subscribers without forwarding them to me. He will still be giving a second (or indeed third) chance for seemingly non-permanent bounces, but we'll probably still make the occasional mistake. Therefore, if you receive a notice indicating that you've been unsubscribed and you don't want to be, accept our apologies in advance, send mail to ferret-request and I'll resubscribe you ASAP. We may be able to adjust the unsubscription notice to contain a copy of the bounce so that you can wave it in your system administrator's face. We have FMLs going out almost every day (often Saturday and/or Sunday won't have one). If you don't receive one in a week, ask your system administrator about mail problems and then contact ferret-request - remember you can always get backissues from cuny. Incidentally, if you've ever received a bounce from here, take notice that we will be changing our access provider in the next week or two. Our access provider has been providing pretty lousy service, up to and including sporadic mail forwarding failures which falsely accuse ferret.ocunix.on.ca of non-existance. [Do you have any idea how hard it is to tighten a power steering pump belt on a Nissan Multi, you need to be a contortionist to hold on to the wrench, let alone get at the tightening bolt, while hordes of mosquitoes are munching on you? AAARRRRGGGGGHHH! I hate cars! Mosquitoes too!] [Posted in FML issue 0854]