T.Clausen@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Mike Cormier wrote:
>
>
>> The oddest thing happened to me a day or 2 ago. Somehow I
>> was automatically un-subscribed from the list. (I didn't
>> do it myself) Just got back on now...
>> ????????????????????????????????
>>
>>
>
> One of the wonders of hotmail is, that the mailbox quickly
> runs full and mails start to bounce.
>
> On this list, each undelivereable message results is a bounce
> to me. That, unfortunately, happenes a lot to list members,
> filling up my mailbox with lots of bounces. If it happens
> that an address causes bounce messages for about 24h or so,
> I unsubscribe the address not to be flooded.
>
> That is what happened to you. Nothing mysteriously about it,
> really. Just a concequence of me not having infinite
> bandwidth and diskspace for receiving and storing bounces :)
One of the nice features of Mailman list software is that it
tracks this stuff automatically and the list admin doesn't have
to do anything about it -- every week on the lists I admin,
dozens of hotmail users have their mail delivery turned off
automatically.
It also seems to have better mime-stripping scripts available --
the bicycle touring list I admin has at least as much traffic as
this list, and I don't think there's even one false-positive for
MIME each week. stripmime will even strip the non-ASCII segments
off of multipart messages, letting the text part get through to
the list. That's also handy for anti-virus protection -- the
list simply can't pass on binaries of any sort.
--
Joshua Putnam
http://www.phred.org/~josh/
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