>One of the beauties of Lawlib is that on regular occasions, you will no
>longer receive messages even though the lookup tables in the udavis computer
>still have you listed as a subscriber. The drill is to send a message to
>listproc to unsubscribe and after a short interval send another message to
>subscribe. I don't know why but this is what works. It's the only list I am
>on that regularly drops me (and everyone else) and I have to re-subscribe.
>Somewhere in the ucdavis implementation of listproc there is a switch which
>is set to the wrong value. People have complained about this problem on
>law-lib from the beginning and it seems unsolvable.
One additional detail: It appears that the problem is in a setting of the
mailer. Rather than continuing to try to send messages to people whose
email addresses are incorrect or cancelled, the mailer automatically removes
them from the list. That procedure makes perfect sense. The problem is
that, the Internet being the Internet, it is not uncommon for an email
address to be temporarily unreachable even though it is valid.
Unfortunately, LawLib appears to remove people after a single failed mail,
and doesn't appear to distinguish between unreachable and invalid addresses.
If this happens to you repeatedly, you should talk to whoever provides your
email service about reliability.
Nick
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