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rg>, at 12:29:00 on Fri, 26 Aug 2005, "Carter, Antoinette (KIS)"
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>I was wondering if those of you who do
>manage e-zines and their distribution lists can offer some cheap and
>cheerful solutions to the problem
I run a few low volume lists, and the software (run by a specialist ISP)
that's used for this automatically observes any bounces and I set the
various thresholds, etc. I don't even see the bounce messages (although
sometimes I think it might be useful if I did) until the thresholds are
exceeded and the member is chucked off, at which point I have configured
it so I get a notification.
Here's the help info:
"These policies control the automatic bounce processing system
in Mailman. Here's an overview of how it works.
"When a bounce is received, Mailman tries to extract two pieces
of information from the message: the address of the member the
message was intended for, and the severity of the problem
causing the bounce. The severity can be either hard or soft
meaning either a fatal error occurred, or a transient error
occurred. When in doubt, a hard severity is used.
"If no member address can be extracted from the bounce, then the
bounce is usually discarded. Otherwise, each member is assigned
a bounce score and every time we encounter a bounce from this
member we increment the score. Hard bounces increment by 1 while
soft bounces increment by 0.5. We only increment the bounce
score once per day, so even if we receive ten hard bounces from
a member per day, their score will increase by only 1 for that
day.
"When a member's bounce score is greater than the bounce score
threshold, the subscription is disabled. Once disabled, the
member will not receive any postings from the list until their
membership is explicitly re-enabled (either by the list
administrator or the user). However, they will receive
occasional reminders that their membership has been disabled,
and these reminders will include information about how to
re-enable their membership.
The system I use is pretty cheap and cheerful. http://www.gradwell.com/
--
Roland Perry
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