You probably know this already, but 1.8e allows you to have the change logs
inserted directly into your DB, no parsing needed. Works great for us.
John Traweek
Senior Account Director
Publishing Concepts, LP
12840 Hillcrest Rd, Ste 230
Dallas, TX 75230
Phone - 972.774.3280
Fax - 972.774.3284
-----Original Message-----
From: Al Iverson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 4:00 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: nolist- changelogs?
Wow, I couldn't be more wrong! Thought I'd share for those who are
curious....
The list in question is in a SQL database. The databsase import tool in
PLSQL was misparsing the incoming records and inserting them into the
database with a CR character appended to the end of the email address.
So, the addresses were on the list with the extra character on the end
of them. So, they bounced. But, by the time our process picks up the
changelog file and processes it, LISTSERV, or the happy little perl
program that processes the changelogs, stripped out the CR. So the
address without the CR was being marked as bounced in our records, even
though the address we mailed had the CR on the end.
This is one of the strangest things I've ever seen.
Regards,
Al Iverson
Al Iverson wrote:
>
> Have you ever done a mail merge mailing, and gotten bounces back to the
> 'nolist' changelog for addresses that you didn't mail in the first
> place?
>
> Looks like we did yesterday. Thousands of them, just about at once. To a
> nolist address used only once in a mailing the day before.
>
> I am wondering if anybody else has run into that...sure seems weird.
>
> Makes me wonder if it could be due to the spread of the various
> Klez-variants. Maybe somebody got our mail and since Klez forges from
> addresses, maybe it forged a from of our return-path/envelope sender
> address. Sure seems weird though....
>
> --
> Al Iverson -- [log in to unmask] -- Minneapolis, Minnesota
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> All opinions are mine alone unless I state otherwise.
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Al Iverson -- [log in to unmask] -- Minneapolis, Minnesota
My pockets hurt. http://www.spamresource.com/
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All opinions are mine alone unless I state otherwise.
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