I automated that. One of my procmail recipes says # Try to auto-reenable those damn suspended subscriptions :0 cD * ^Subject: confirm [0-9a-f]*$ * ^Message-ID: <mailman * ^X-Mailman-Version: * ^X-List-Administrivia: yes | /home/mouse/hacks/auto-reenable-mailman auto-reenable-mailman is a bit large to include here verbatim, but here it is after compressing with bzip2 and then encoding in base64. It is unlikely to be of use to anyone untouched, if only because it has a path hardwired on line 2, but it may be useful to someone as a starting point for scripting such confirmations. QlpoOTFBWSZTWewnpAYAAI9fgAAwffv4n14u3Ev/////YAKL7KQZJCUKEep6U02o zUNDJoGTMmoeUHqaNAaDQGSmmmTSj9Cn6aFDNQGgAAyDQAAHGTJkxGJgBMmCZADR hGAIYDjJkyYjEwAmTBMgBowjAEMBxkyZMRiYATJgmQA0YRgCGASSIyNEaZKPxU0H pH6k0Gmh6g0aA2m0kZCiI9GRgVWRgZDEnjUkrX0U19rEUWXTH51z+1fv5NXarShn qYjZZigdYZCurIoUBNuM0B8+lqjBCs0hyEp408gT9Mo49U/eKwc8acpkQiUbkXj+ OFjcldWof2Mmshgam5Ps6rbuk+7wO5mqpFVVJMZdyIR7G2FjJFaePcrcqPk68cYk 0xmSq9LhhazmCKyCTuGXLuUkEJQerESgEoDtrD8S/u2DdmARQ/ByOMYlpTHP8uhl ktvEW4KiNAou50SSFAgLhND8VwRN/cD7W/gvu1278FkKJWdoZNA6VRVK3Z33GnE+ aZniYrZ0KGHLMuKpZ7AbovHJpHpqMyfEXWZg7VBLlFml1G8qoMxwVkhSglYaPQcE mtbY5mkENpypexQXmF6eB6w3KZhqw081eXvJu0D+COsvCdoRLALWcMg0MMM1P4kq t8ZGsJDczBwHvDeovep9e7yzm5Xa2Fh2gNSdzkqYWLyUrBKCLgioK9zq0zFVp7ee nW4Z42RRUxTXcpjeyKx5zrLr1+zDA4YADE0UhJxIH0hExkXUH9ngHIIl9wlMo/CY tAFZhg+uq8hTpGkrC5oIEr1C0XWwN7UYFGZ72WLkX3qmQ1iYjqHvSZ7IZPWyqZUY YgSAs0j2UJ5jLwTh0UXJWAy/yrfVqRjFO4pr0rgYqKhiR5DwKCbHKaQgoyTGJtRp QXDLYILW8NYdZDNZdEsBUoRc8IoSoWgKaZKCZeIzsMiAU/GhEY3WhV6ErS8yIzJ8 yWAxoslcMln0/d3/F3JFOFCQ7CekBg== As for why it's happening, I've never looked very far for that. In the case of classiccmp, I haven't seen any problem recently, but that's because I have a standing offer - which admittedly I don't advertise much - to listowners and postmasters, to make list mail I would otherwise reject silently vanish instead, and apparently Jay took me up on it, because I find I'm configured to do that for classiccmp list mail. But, in general, I refuse anything that shows evidence of having gone through gmail and most listowners aren't willing to do likewise, so I don't usually have to look very far for a reason for having my subscriptions get auto-suspended. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B