Francoise , in my previous thread on LSTOWN-L, Auto-Delete, Adam Bailey
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
"I've found, at least on my LISTSERV, that a subscriber has to exceed the
Max() number in order to be deleted. Although I've never tried to confirm
that this is normal LISTSERV behavior. "
This appears to be the case with my 1.8d list but it contradicts what you
sent me in April (below). It also contradicts the text at the bottom of the
Daily error monitoring report. My list has been set at:
Auto-Delete= Yes,Semi-Auto,Delay(45), Max(2)
Your message and the daily error monitoring report would lead me to believe
that subscribers would be deleted with the second bounce within a 45 day
period. I have attached a copy of the daily error monitoring report from
yesterday. It shows users who have bounced twice still being monitored after
53 days? I have deleted the addresses for privacy reasons. I did check and
these users are still subscribed to the list.
Can you please help to understand what is going on.
Thanks,
Frank
<<SOCO-NEWS-L Daily error monitoring report.txt>>
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From: Francoise Becker [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
<mailto:[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]>
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 1999 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: FW: LISTSERV 1.8d & auto deletion
On 1 Apr 99, at 15:59, Fitzmaurice, Frank wrote:
> Announcements are
> usually no more frequent than once a month. I believe we have
several
> lists that meet this profile at DTIC. Currently the list is setup
with:
> Auto-Delete= Yes,Semi-Auto,Delay(4), Max(100)
If you are posting only once a month, then no subscription will ever get
auto-deleted with this setting.
I would recommend:
Auto-Delete= Yes,Full-Auto,Delay(45),Max(2)
This would auto-delete any subscription that bounces 2 months in a row. (I
use 45 because you said "approximately" monthly, so this gives you a little
more lee-way in posting rather than using exactly 31).
What that says is that if within a period of 45 days, I get 2 bounces from
this address, it will be auto-deleted. If it bounces one month, but not the
following month, then the auto-delete log will get cleared. If you want to
be more conservative, then you could up the Max. It doesn't clear the count
of bounces until it's gone 45 days without a bounce, so if you use
Delay(45),Max(3), then it would have to bounce for 3 months in a row. Of
course if 2 bounces came, one on day 1 and one on day 45, that would also
auto-delete it, because the Delay variable really gets used in 2 ways...
<passive probing discussion omitted>
Francoise
From: L-Soft list server at FTP.DTIC.MIL (1.8d)
[[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, June 21, 1999 12:00 AM
To: Frank FitzMaurice
Subject: SOCO-NEWS-L: Daily error monitoring report
The following 7 subscribers are currently being monitored:
Err First Last Address
--- ----- ----- -------
2 04/29 05/18
2 04/29 05/18
2 04/30 05/18
2 04/29 05/18
2 04/29 05/18
2 04/29 05/18
2 04/29 05/18
Err= Number of delivery errors received thus far
First= Date first delivery error was received (mm/dd)
Last= Date of most current delivery error (mm/dd)
Subscribers will be automatically deleted from the list when delivery errors
have been reported for a period of 45 days or more, or when 2 delivery
errors have been received, whichever occurs first. Monitoring will cease
after 46 days without any reported error.
Note: manually deleted subscribers may remain on the monitoring report under
an alias address. Such entries will expire eventually; you do not need to do
anything about them.
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