Our list is a bit more active with about 74 to 200 posts daily and more than
100 most days. If I don't manage bounces very aggressively, it gets out of
hand very quickly.

No, I'm not using autodelete, I manually delete people when they start
bouncing. In my experience, there is never (or rarely) just one bounce and
if I did see that, I agree, I would not immediately delete the subscriber. I
usually see 5 or 10 bounces in a row from the same person.

It seems like nothing I do will stop the list server from distributing
bounces back to the other members. All the posts that the bounce subscriber
has received are qued up on his mail server and are continuing to come back
unless I delete him. I've tried setting nopost, but that doesn't seem (and I
only tried it once so I'm not really sure) to work.

Our list is closed so not just anyone can post...

...I guess next time I will try blocking the mail server with the filter
setting.

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-----Original Message-----
From: LISTSERV list owners' forum
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Winship
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 17:28
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Duplicate Posting problem


On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, j newton wrote:
> The "twice through the list server" thing works very well for me on my
list,
> but once someone has been detected as a bouncer, is there any way for me
to
> tell the list server to stop distributing post from them? I am currently
> deleting the subscriber the instant I see the first bounce (with 2000
> members, I can't afford to be nice about it) but I still see round after
> round of bounces come through from the same person.

Are you using auto-delete?  Probe?

I've got one list of 3,500+ (traffic 40 - 65 per day, latter the thrshold)
and another of 2,500+ (traffic 25 -45 per day) and I don't delete at the
first bounce, as "singleton" bounces (one item out of 65 bounces) are not
uncommon.  If I delete at the first bounce I am making more work for
myself and the subscriber.  If it persists I set DIGEST and wait to see if
the Digest bounces for three or four days, then delete.  Of course, if the
person is already DIGEST or INDEX I just let it bounce for several days,
only one per day, and if it doesn't correct itself then delete.

I check the errors, on a special account dedicated to that purpose,
only once per day so I already have a good idea how many postings
there were that day and can easily spot if I'm dealing with a singleton
or not.       Douglas