On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 08:55:18PM +0100, Reinhard Mueller wrote:
My understanding was that the email didn't ask you to resubscribe, but to confirm your existing subscription. When you log into your mailman settings for the list, there is a checkbox somewhere that says "delivery disabled", and you have to uncheck it.
After the last mail you should be able to resubscribe, since AFAIU you are not not subscribed any more.
Yes, this is the standard mailman procedure for excessive bounces: the address is first disabled from delivery (but not unsubscribed), and 3 weekly reminders are sent; if bouncing persists you are automatically unsubscribed.
(BTW I've manually re-subscribed on 9 March the 6 @gnu.org addresses that were automatically unsubscribed in the morning).
Concering the reasons of the bounces, I can't give you further details, but I hope our sysadmin will be able to look at this shortly.
I guess the gnu.org mailserver had some trouble in late February early March (@gnu.org users: can you confirm?), because the bounce configuration parameters for this list are set to default values; anyway I'll have a closer look at them, please report any other problems you might find to system-hackers@fsfeurope.org Thanks!
Cri