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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 Yahoo groups 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 Yahoo group 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.
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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, Yahoo group 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 Yahoo group 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@xxxxxxxxxxx and Srivaishnavan@xxxxxxxxx 

 
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"

 




 
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