Sigh ... guess I'll reply on the list, since Mark missed my responses were via
private e-mail ...

On 16 Nov 2001 at 12:43, Mark A. Holmes wrote, in part:
> my only concern:
> does full-auto passive probing just delete bounce addresses immediately?

No. In my experience, it does "the right thing".  Fwiw, here's today's summary
report for a list that has about 1,000 subscribers and 5-10 posts a day.   cheers,
wayne

The following 1 subscriber was deleted from the xxxxxxxx  list today:

  Joe Arndt <[log in to unmask]>
  Last error was: Probe failed.

The following 6 subscribers are currently being monitored:

Err First Last  Address
--- ----- ----- -------
 10 11/12 11/15 [log in to unmask]
                Last error: Probe failed.

 10 11/12 11/15 [log in to unmask]
                Last error: Probe failed.

  8 11/12 11/15 [log in to unmask]
                Last error: Probe failed.

  3 11/15 11/15 Christian Danish <[log in to unmask]>
                Last error: Host unknown (Name server: managedops.com: no
                data
                            known)

  1 11/15 11/15 [log in to unmask]
                Last error: Probe failed.

  1 11/14 11/14 [log in to unmask]
                Last error: User unknown

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  4 days or  more, or when  100
delivery errors have  been received,  whichever occurs  first. Monitoring
will cease after 5 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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