[plug] [OT] hotmail hostility

[Ryan]

On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 10:32, sol wrote:
> Sorry, this is an off-topic question, but if anyone is likely to know the 
> answer it is - ironically - you guys/gals :). Plus it could open up a 
> fabulous opportunity to bitch about Micro$loth.
> 
> An email sent via Mailman to a mailing list just got a reply from 
> postmaster at mail.hotmail.com saying:
> 
> "This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
> 
> Delivery to the following recipients failed."

I read somewhere recently (forget where) about some new limits they have
put in place to reduce hotmail's reputation as a spammers haven.  I
think they all related to the number of messages per day that a member
could send and the number of receipients they could put in each message,
so I can't see how that would affect you unless your mailman list is
sending through a hotmail account somehow.  

Similarly, Telstra's server are notorious for random outages and
denials, so it isn't too much of a stretch for hotmail to have a problem
also.

So in summary: I don't know :)

Ryan