At 09:24 PM 4/19/97 -0800, you wrote:
>I'll reiterate again that auto-delete does NOT delete addresses with
>temporary errors, such as mailbox full or host down.  It only acts on
>permanent errors, such as unknown user and unknown host.  I just need to be
>clear about what triggers it to act.

I'm all in favor of knowledge and learning, but I guess I'm missing the
reason why it MATTERS, other than general curiosity.  People who get
deleted, automatically or otherwise, fall into two groups.  First, those
who don't know and/or care if they've been deleted.  Second, those who are
pissed off and ranting.  There doesn't seem to be any middle ground....or
else listowners never hear from them.  o-)

My reaction to those who are pissed is "grow up, get a life, deal with it,
resubscribe".  There will always be people who get dropped due to various
situations that are out of their control.  Also, those reasons are
difficult to impossible to track down, and quite simply don't matter in
most cases.  Who really CARES whether it is because some backhoe ate some
fiber in West Buttcheek Iowa, or because some server crashed and burned, or
because a router died, or whatever?  Even if you knew why it happened, so
what?

All of this seems to fit with the American (and exclusively American?)
penchant for finger pointing, blaming, and getting pissed off.  But I'll
stop there....

If people get deleted from my lists, and they're pissed, I tell them
"something broke somewhere" and that I don't know or care what or where or
why.  If they do, they can take it up with their local ISP.

cheers

cyclops

Dan Lester
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In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.  Erasmus, 1534