admin note about pynchon-l and spam filtering

[oliviax]

hello list!

over the past year, i've had several inquiries from people who've 
realized they've stopped getting email from the list. usually, the cause 
for that is that a large email provider (like outlook or yahoo) has 
decided to block all email coming from a large block of ip addresses at 
our hosting provider (akamai) and we are collateral damage. after 
several "permanent" rejections, the pynchon-l list software will drop 
people at that email provider from the list.

unfortunately, when this happens, people will write to me.. and then my 
response will also get rejected! so if you get kicked off the list and 
can't resubscribe, that's probably what happening. fwiw, gmail seems to 
be less problematic in this regard than many of the other large 
providers.

i'll also mention that the list has a limit on message and attachment 
sizes (1.5mb) and number of recipients (10), so try to stay within those 
bounds if you want your message to make it to the list.

- olivia x