Admin: Bouncing Emails and Digest Mode
Admin: Bouncing Emails and Digest Mode
- Subject: Admin: Bouncing Emails and Digest Mode
- From: Quinn <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 10:07:16 +0100
Greetings MacNetworkProg'ers
I'm the list admin for the MacNetworkProg mailing list. Admin'ing
the list is a surprising amount of work. The biggest issue is list
members whose email starts to bounce. When I get a bounce message I
don't immediately unsubscribe the recipient because there are many
transient errors in email. A server will go down, messages will
bounce, and then someone notices and they fix it. So, I try to give
bouncers about a week to fix their servers.
Recently I've instituted a policy to reduce the number of bounce
messages I get. After a couple of bounce messages from the same
recipient, I switch the recipient to digest mode. This reduces the
number of emails they get, and hence the number of bounces that I get.
So, if you suddenly find yourself switched to digest mode, it's
probably because your email was bouncing and I switched you over.
You can switch yourself back using the mailing list admin interface.
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http://lists.apple.com/macnetworkprog>
Share and Enjoy
--
Quinn "The Eskimo!" <
http://www.apple.com/developer/>
Apple Developer Technical Support * Networking, Communications, Hardware
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