Suddenly unsubscribed

I just received this:

> At 12:28 PM 7/4/97 +1000, you wrote:
<SNIP>
> Is there some automatic feature that removes people from the list for
There is no automation, there is only me:). As it happens, you fell fowl of my
'rule of thumb' about errant mail messages. Basically, I received an error
message from your mail server every day for a five day period. That means
(usually) that the account is dead or the ISP has gone up the tubes, so I
remove the account from the list of subscribers. Another possible cause is
that people go on holiday without temporarily unsubbing themselves, their mail
accounts over flow and the mail gets bounced back. As you have no doubt found
out, people this happens to are perfectly entitled to resub.

I apologise that this has happened to you (and indeed to anyone else it may
have happened to in the past) but rest assured if I were dumping anyone for a
reason other than that I describe above I would make sure they knew about it
beforehand. As of yet that hasn't been required. It's just a measure I have to
take to keep the mailing list error messages down in double figures. If this
happens to anyone in the future and I haven't told them why, get in touch with
me personally and we'll sort it out.

                        TTFN
                                Jon