here's the bounce-back data generated from my clicking the balug.org Webmaster link at the bottom of the page.
email To: field was
To: webperson <nospam>@balug.org
Begin forwarded message:
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem MAILER-DAEMON@smtp.well.com Date: October 6, 2006 11:10:42 AM PDT To: jim@well.com Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details
The original message was received at Fri, 6 Oct 2006 11:10:42 -0700 (PDT) from dsl081-061-186.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.61.186]
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<nospam> (reason: 550 5.1.1 <nospam@mail.well.com>... User unknown) (expanded from: <nospam>)
----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to mail.well.com:
RCPT To:nospam@mail.well.com
<<< 550 5.1.1 nospam@mail.well.com... User unknown 550 5.1.1 <nospam>... User unknown Reporting-MTA: dns; smtp.well.com Received-From-MTA: DNS; dsl081-061-186.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net Arrival-Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 11:10:42 -0700 (PDT)
Final-Recipient: RFC822; nospam@smtp.well.com X-Actual-Recipient: RFC822; nospam@mail.well.com Action: failed Status: 5.1.1 Remote-MTA: DNS; mail.well.com Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 5.1.1 nospam@mail.well.com... User unknown Last-Attempt-Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 11:10:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: jim stockford jim@well.com Date: October 6, 2006 11:14:17 AM PDT To: webperson <nospam>@balug.org Subject: request registration help
upon registering at the balug.org site, I got an error message--some api call problem. upon re-registering, I got a message that the email address ( jim@well.com ) was already registered.
username jim.stockford email jim@well.com
my guess is that the original registration partially succeeded, enough to queer subsequent tries but not enough for success.