Doug, Thanks for the response describing your diligent manor of list monitoring. Fully appreciate your efforts. Even those I can only imagine. This happens to be the first series of such incidents in my 6-7 year subscription. Maybe we have a lurker who has passed away, (Heaven forbid).
Jack --- Doug Brewer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jack Davis wrote: > > I thought such was the basis for being "unsubscribed".(?) > > > > Jack > > > > --- Aaron Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>It's not advertising spam, it's bounce messages -- every message I > >>send to the list I get back from this one guy's mailserver, telling > >>me not to e-mail him anymore because his inbox is full. > >> > >>-Aaron > >> > > It's an inexact science. I receive around a thousand bounce messages > a > day, along with quarantine notifications, out-of-office replies, > etc., > all piled up to be 1500 or so...and like I told Bob, the grifante > stuff > didn't stand out as excessive. > > Most days I give the bounce folder a cursury glance to see if > anything > jumps out at me. If it does, I consider unsubbing the account, or put > it > on the back burner to see if the situation is temporary. > > If the bounces are coming from a regular on the list, I generally > assume > that person will notice the too-full mailbox and rectify. There are, > of > course, notable exceptions to this..(cough*marnie*cough)... and the > way > they figure out they are over quota is they get unsubbed. > > If the bounces are coming from a lurker, I have a shorter leash. It's > > probably unfair, but what the heck. > > Now, if your mail server begins sending me messages that it cannot > deliver your email, and that it will continue trying to do so for > five > days, be prepared for your ears to begin burning, because I'll be > cursing. That's because, even if I go ahead and unsub your account, > your > mail server will still generate a bounce message every time it tries > to > deliver each message, multiple times over the next five days. This is > to > be avoided. > > Some days, if I have a spare few minutes, I'll do some weeding. This > means I can take a deeper look at the bounce folder to get rid of > accounts that have too many bounces. > > What's too many? I dunno. I used to have a hard ceiling, actually had > it > coded into the software, to bounce automatically, but I kept upping > the > ceiling in order to keep from having to answer all the "Why did I get > > unsubbed?" messages I got, and to keep Mark Roberts on the list for > more > than five minutes at a time. I finally got rid of the ceiling > altogether > so I could decide on things case by case. > > And that's where it stands now. > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
