Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:35:44 10/21/01
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On October 20, 2001 at 03:12:57, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >On October 20, 2001 at 01:04:30, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>My choice would be to have ICD send out a "test" message once a week. If >>one bounces, that handle gets terminated instantly. As a moderator I _really_ >>disliked trying to clean up a thread that was out of control, fabricate multiple >>emails with specific message numbers in them, only to have some of them bounce >>back for invalid emails. >> >>on the crafty mailing list, if an email bounces, the user is instantly >>unsubscribed and has to re-join with a valid email. That would eliminate >>a _lot_ of moderator frustration here... > >I think it's a bit overboard to take action after one single bounced email. >_Everyone_ bounces some emails from time to time. It would be extremely >annoying to have to re-subscribe to a bunch of stuff just because of a couple >randomly-bounced emails. I think a better solution is that if an email >bounces, to send out another email to that address. If the second email bounces >also, then action can be taken. In the case of the crafty mailing list, _every_ message bounces right back to me. In a single day, this might be one message. Or 30. 75% bounce because someone chose to change their email provider without updating the mailing list _first_. The other 25% includes mailbox full, no such host, and the like. I do the crafty list as a service. It takes a lot of time. I am willing to answer all the questions that get posed. But I'm not willing to try to resolve email problems. This list averages about 10 "bogus" users a week, on average. Which results in at least 300 returned/bounced emails a week. That is a big time-waster than I try to eliminate with somewhat draconian methods.
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