On Mon, 17 Apr 1995 23:31:36 -0500 Winship said: >On Mon, 17 Apr 1995, Dave Gomberg wrote: >> On Mon, 17 Apr 1995 08:33:45 -0400 David B. O'Donnell said: >> >Yes, getting hundreds of bounces a day is irritating. I'm not sure what >> >exactly can or should be done about it, though. >> I know exactly what should be done about it. The number of bounce messages >> to a single recipient about a single user should be limited (to one per day >> or whatever). There is no point in pumping them out by the dozens or more. >Yes, there is a point to this. If you have a largish, active list (AUTOCAT >is 3000+, traffic of 25 - 65+ per day) 200 - 300 errors per day is not >unusual. A lot of those will be repeats, but a fair number will be singleton >errors, or errors that happen two - three times per day over a number of >days. Those I save for reference for a while, but otherwise ignore (helps >to have a special account for errors). If only one error for the >subscriber in question is allowed through how can it be determined whether >the problem will likely go away by itself or it is serious and something >needs to be done, without extra work? Well, what I DO under the present situation is trash all error msgs from each sender of errors except one per day. So if that sender needs to complain about 2 subscribers, it will take him a couple of days to get his point across. But it beats looking and hundreds of bounce msgs in a day. Dave Dave Gomberg, San Francisco Internet: [log in to unmask]