[Vwoolf] List serve problems

David Eberly davidmeberly at gmail.com
Thu Feb 15 15:51:29 EST 2018


Elisa - A very big thank you for your (Woolfian) labor of love - David

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 11:17 AM, Elisa Sparks via Vwoolf <
vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> Dear All (finally ALL) Woolfians--
>
>
> Since the beginning of February I have been working with the very fine
> folks at OSC to solve some security issues that have had an impact on the
> list.  As service providers change their security specifications to keep up
> with ever-evolving threats, they sometimes create barriers to legitimate
> mail through DMARC commands.  Apparently  a bunch of these new restrictions
> kicked in at the beginning of the year, and as a consequence people were
> bumped off the list.
>
>
> Many of you may have received notifications that your subscriptions have
> been disabled due to excessive bounces. (I have rather enjoyed the vision
> of all you wonderful Woolf people bouncing on some giant world
> trampoline).  Those notices contained directions for reinstating your
> subscription by clicking on a link and following directions.  Those of you
> who did this, thank you.  It was legitimate and you were reinstated.
> However at least 154 of you either did not get the notices or thought they
> were bogus or dangerous.  I have now gone through the entire list and
> reinstated everyone who was bounced off.  The tech people at OSC have reset
> our security parameters, and since I have not received any new bounce
> notifications for the past week or so, I am hoping this has solved the
> problem.
>
>
> If this begins happening again, please do follow instructions for
> reinstating yourself.
>
>
> We have done all we can with this.  And I am hoping this is enough. The
> next step wd be for YOU to notify your service provider and complain that
> they are bouncing you off the list and ask them to reset their DEMARC
> parameters.  According to OSU, they do not always agree to do this. The
> majority of bounces were coming from aol, yahoo, and academic accounts to
> numerous to track, but including many non-USA universities.  But for now,
> all appears to be okay.
>
>
> I do get a notice when you are bounced. And I can go in and unblock you.
> But I am hoping I will not have to do this one by one again.
>
>
> You were off the list for 2 weeks at most.  OSU asked me not to reinstate
> everyone while they were trying to figure out what the problem was.  If
> this is the first time you have heard about this problem, you probably
> *were* bounced.  You may have missed Derek's announcement that the
> deadline for proposals to this year's Woolf conference at the University of
> Kent in Canterbury has been extended until Feb 16.
>
>
>  I am not going to resend everything that came to the list in the last two
> weeks, as there are 600 or so members who would be getting duplicates, but
> I trust that anyone who has a REALLY IMPORTANT announcement will resend it.
>
>
> Thanks for your patience.
> Elisa Kay Sparks, Web Moderator for the VWoolf List Serve
>
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