At 3:06 PM -0400 8/28/01, Jacob Haller wrote: >>I got no responses on LSTOWN-L, so I thought I'd ask again over here: >> >>I evidently don't understand Probe as well as I thought I did. I >>have two lists, one a sub-sublist of the other. They are part of a >>superlist heirarchy, so the superlist has 23 sublists which are also >>superlists, drawing on about 300 actual lists. The sublist is one of >>those 300 lists. The superlist and sublist each contain the >>following keyword: >> >>* Auto-Delete= Yes,Full-Auto,Delay(1),Max(0),Probe(1) >> >>We had reason to publish to both the superlist and the sublist within >>the last 24 hours. > >By "publish" do you mean that you sent mail to them? If so, which >did you send mail to first? Yes, sorry -- we use Listserv to "publish" email abstracting journals. I should have said posted. The monitoring reports have been discarded, unfortunately, but I was told the two posts were about a day apart. >>The superlist monitoring report listed 85 errors, >>none of which were Probe failed. > >What do these entries on the daily error monitoring report look like? >(What reason is given for them bouncing?) Are these addresses >actually subscribed to any of the mailing lists? Normal bounces -- host not found, unknown user, etc. All were for addresses actually subscribed to lists. >>The sublist monitoring report >>listed 58 errors, every single one of which was a Probe failed. >>There was no crossover of errors between the two monitoring reports. >> >>My questions are: >> >>Why didn't the superlist monitoring report reflect the same Probe >>failed messages that the sublist monitoring report did? > >The addresses that bounced when you sent mail to a sublist should >have been removed. If you sent mail to the superlist after the >addresses were removed then they wouldn't be there to bounce again. >Could that help explain this? Even with Delay(1)? I thought this meant the list waited 1 day before deleting the bouncing addresses. >>Do superlists actually have the ability to probe the addresses >>subscribed to the sublists? > >I'm not sure how this is handled. I know that addresses on a sublist >will not be automatically removed based on bounces resulting from a >superlist mailing. That doesn't really answer your question however. No, but it's another piece to the puzzle. Thanks for your help, Jacob. Sherry >Thanks, >-- >Jacob Haller, Technical Support >L-Soft international, Inc >http://www.lsoft.com/