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> >What do other list owners/ LISTSERV postmasters do in handling rejection
> >mail?   If the rejection mail is for a Internet site, do you try PINGing
> >the host site?
 
I put up with it for awhile.  Monitor it for awhile.  If it is one
person at a site (NOSUCHUSER), I waste them.  If it is several people
at a site (NOSUCHUSER), I try to contact someone at the site (by
looking in BITEARN with ldbase, or whois at nic.ddn.mil.  If that
fails I waste them.  If it is No such node, I try harder to contact
someone at the site.  If that fails I waste them.  I don't do a quiet
delete, but it doesn't matter, the mail generated by delete gets
bounced anyway.  In general, I put up with it as long as it doesn't
bother me, doesn't last too long.  Lots of times it "self-corrects."
I am quicker to get rid of users from a list at the end of the fall,
spring and summer.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Ken Schriner                            BITNET  ks06054@uafsysb
University of Arkansas                Internet  [log in to unmask]