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SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya nama:

 

Dear friends who have opted for " No E-mail " preference in receiving messasges

from Sri Ranga Sri.

 

The Administration is deleting the membership of those who have opted

for this preference, if their mails continue to bounce for about one year.

 

Please read the following message.

 

We would advise you kindly validate your id and update your

preference to avoid being removed from your membership. Please feel

free to contact us if you have any questions in this regard.

 

THIS IS URGENT, PLEASE

Moderator

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>

> srivaishnavan

> Sat, 18 Aug 2007 00:21:04 +0000

> Bouncing membership issues

>

> Dear Bhagavatas:

> You might have noticed in the recent past a sudden depletion of

> membership of our group.

>

>

> Though we do not seek any " comfort in numbers " , the membership

rose

> to over 5100 Today, the active membership has come down to around

> 4300.

>

> This is because of removal by Administration of

members

> whose mails " bounced " frequently.

>

>

>

> We ourselves wanted to effect such removals of inactive members

> because 5000+ membership was becoming progressively unmanageable.

>

> We took up the matter with Administrators who have

> informed as follows:

>

>

>

> " We are in the process of cleaning up long time bouncing members

and

> within the first phase of this clean up we are removing just email-

> only group members whose email addresses have been bouncing for

more

> than a year.

>

> In the next phase of the clean up we will turn our attention on

> web-access members whose emails have been bouncing for more than a

> year. If you have members that fit this description encourage them

> to update their membership with a valid email address "

>

>

> We hereby request members who have opted for Web access to review

> the currency of their membership and immediately update with valid

> email address to avoid being removed from our membership.

> -

 

> A closer look at the " Bouncing History " revealed the following:

>

> 1. Some Internet Service Providers (ISPs) offer only very limited

> storage facility. (e.g.) MSN Hotmail gives only 2MBs free. If and

> when the size reaches this limit, the account is automatically

> disabled and further delivery of mails stopped. The Hotmail

janitor

> deletes all messages beyond this limit and they cannot be

recovered.

> 2. The same is the case of members acquiring extra storage on

> payment of

> hefty charges. These accounts are similarly disabled and made

> defunct if and when the size reaches the limit of extra storage

> acquired.

> 3. Further, in the case of 1 above, members are required to sign

in

> at least once in 30 days to keep their accounts active. Otherwise,

> the accounts are deactivated and mails sent to them " bounce " .

> Members are requested to access the Group page at least once a

> month, if not more than once.

>

> There are two main reasons why Storage capacity is exceeded:

> (a) " Attachments " " Attachments " usually occupy enormous space to

> the detriment of other mails.

> Contributors are requested to avoid " attachments " which sometimes

> conceal in them malicious viruses.

> (b) " Copycat versions "

> " Copycat versions " of the same material received repeatedly, " ad

> nauseam " from multiple groups necessitate deletions that naturally

> take time and effort. As a matter of policy, " Sri Ranga Sri "

> discourages such postings from contributors.

> 4. Another major factor is that when members drop / cancel their

> email addresses registered with " Sri Ranga Sri " and subsequently

> change over to new ones sometimes they do not inform us. In such

> cases, it is requested that they duly intimate the fact to " Sri

> Ranga Sri " . Otherwise, " Bounce History " reports messages such

> as " Invalid recipient " , " User Unknown " , " User inactive " , " Disabled

> or disconnected " , " Mailbox not available " etc.

> 5. In some cases, Administration reports " Unable to

> relay " or " Relaying denied at the receiving end " . When members

feel

> that they are not receiving the usual postings, they may check up

> with their ISPs to arrange for restoration of delivery.

> 6. Some domain names are " blacklisted " by

Administration

> (for whatever reason) and mails are not delivered to these

domains.

> The email addresses of members who had registered under these

domain

> names appear in the " Bouncing History " . Members who feel that they

> are not receiving the usual postings may check up with

their " Domain

> Administrators " to fix the problem.

>

> Any comments / remarks / suggestions may be addressed in personal

> mail to -Ramanbil and Srivaishnavan

>

>

> PLEASE DO NOT ADDRESS " SRI RANGA SRI " JOURNAL.

>

> Thanks for your patience and cooperation.

> Dasoham

> Anbil Ramaswamy

> Madhava Kannan

> Moderator & Co-moderator

> " Sri Ranga Sri "