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Re: rebeating a dead horse -- dropping subscribers from list.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donnie Barnes)
Wed Oct 30 17:26:08 1996
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 30 Oct 1996 10:21:06 +0700."
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Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 17:19:12 -0500
From: Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com>
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> Greetings,
>
> Sort of sorry for rehashing the same old problem, but I would like to
> suggest that the list maintainers set up the list to allow 1 day of bouncing
> if possible before dropping a subscriber.
>
> My reasoning is based on the fact that some mail transfer protocols (UUCP in
> my case) will send a warning if a message hasn't been delivered in a certain
> time period. It looks like a bounce, but is just informative.
>
> The aggravating problem is that I had recently posted a couple of questions
> that may have been answered by people in the time period that I had been dropped
> from the list.
>
> Thanks for your tolerance and consideration.
Well, SmartList isn't configurable to a time period, only a *number* of
bounces. It was set at 4, which is low. I've moved it to 20, but I
hesitate to go any higher than that.
--Donnie
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