16 November 1995 Ottawa Canada
 
Hi Roger:
 
Here is how i handle list errors sent to me for manual processing:
 
1.  See if i recognize the site.  If i do and it is a chronic problem i
judt delete the message and continue.
 
if it continues too many days, I write to my subscriber there to ask what
is wrong or delete them and try to advise them somehow why their
subscription was killed.
 
2.  If the from: is different then i read down the list to find who the
error is in respect of and if it is not transient I issue a delete for
the user and if I am not too harried,  a letter explaining i killed their
subscription because...
 
3.  if the error is no such hote, i issue a delete listname *@home.domain
 
Saves deleting them one at a time.
 
There is a trick to reading error messages and you sometimes have one h
of a time figureing out who the intended addressee is and other times if
it is mime encoded, it is nicely formatted and explicit.
 
I truly worship the sites that generate non-delivery notices that
listserv can auto process.
 
 
 
-- Brian Lingard
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