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["Greg Mayman" <gmone@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 23:10:01 +0011, Peter Lawrence wrote:

> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!

> I haven't received any list messages recently, and a friend told me a
> message just bounced, so I suspect my ISP may have started fine tuning
> out all the regular non-spam while still letting through the spam
> (without consulting me about any changes).

I think Coollist has gone offline.

At least twice before it has stopped working, but on those occasions it
accepted mail but refused to send any out to the list subscribers.

My experience on those occasions was that I logged onto its web site and
found three or four email addresses, including its Help line.

But emails to any of these addresses were undelivered.

I suspect that coollist is a computer system somewhere, maybe in a
locked office, that has been forgotten by its owners. It is running on
autopilot.

My theory about the failures is that the system sometimes gets a glitch
and stops forwarding mail to the subscribers. But then something --
maybe a power bump -- resets it and then it runs properly for some time
until it gets another glitch.

I note that its web site http://www.coollist.com is still online and
allowing sunscribers to log in.

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