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Re: Auto-deletion
From:
Ol' blue eyes <[log in to unmask]>
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LISTSERV list owners' forum <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 21 Jul 1994 17:38:05 -0500
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>LISTSERV doesn't attempt to interpret error texts - it's a hopeless task.
>Instead it uses the numeric codes. If the code says "this address doesn't
>exist", LISTSERV  deletes the recipient.  It just can't second  guess the
>sanity of the system issuing this diagnostic.
 
        But it didn't do it before 1.8, did it?  Seems to me that its handling
        of this sort of error, which is usually much less of a problem than
        systems holding undelivered messages for X days before telling the
        listowner about it (grrrrrr...), is unduly harsh and arbitrary.  It's
        *easy* to set a bad address nomail, so 'renew' will eventually delete
        it, or delete it.  OTOH, there's nothing to do except grin and bear it
        when you know that you'll be getting bounce messages from somewhere for
        the next X days.
 
        WRT the specific address that caused me to write, it's ironic that I
        received a personal note from the very same person at almost exactly
        the same time that the auto-deletion message got here.
 
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