Hi Francoise,

Thank you, after your explaination I now fully understand what these
auto-delete properties really mean.

Thanks again,
Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Francoise Becker" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: Auto Delete properties


> On 23 Mar 2006 at 11:47, Michael DeGregory wrote:
>
> > We have a list with Max(5), Delay(160) This means if the subscribers
errors five
> > times than remove the account in 160 days, correct?
>
> No. It will get auto-deleted when it gets the 5th bounce (the next
> morning, actually).
>
> Subscriber will be auto-deleted when EITHER the max OR the delay is
> reached. I.e. Max(100),Delay(4) means that if there are 100 bounces
> for the address in just 1 to 3 days, it will be deleted, and if there
> are bounces for 4 days, even if it does not hit 100, it will be
> deleted. If there are fewer than 100 bounces for the first 3 days,
> and NO bounces on the 4th day, then LISTSERV will not auto-delete but
> continue to monitor for 4 more days. If ANY bounces occur within
> those next 4 days, then the address will be auto-deleted. If NO
> bounces occur during those next 4 days, then the bounce-count for
> that address will be reset to 0.
>
> -- 
> Francoise Becker <[log in to unmask]>
>
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