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This message is a probe for your subscription to the IBM-MAIN list. You
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particular you should  not reply to this message. Simply  discard it now,
or  read on  if  you would  like  to  know more  about  how this  probing
mechanism works.

A  probe  is a  message  like  the one  you  are  reading, sent  to  an
individual subscriber  and tagged  with a  special signature  to uniquely
identify  this  particular subscriber  (you  may  not see  the  signature
because it is in the mail headers). If the subscriber's e-mail address is
no longer  valid, then the message  will be returned to  LISTSERV and the
faulty address will be removed from the list. If the subscriber's address
is still valid, then the message will not bounce and the user will not be
deleted.

The main advantage  of this technique is that it  can be fully automated;
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The  drawback,  however,  is  that  this  method  lacks  flexibility  and
forgiveness. Since the Internet does not provide a reliable mechanism for
probing an  e-mail address without  actually delivering a message  to the
human  recipient, the  subscribers  need to  be  inconvenienced with  yet
another junk message. And, unlike  a human list owner, LISTSERV follows
a number of  simple rules in determining when and  whether to terminate a
subscription. In  particular, a common  problem with automatic  probes is
mail gateways  that return a delivery  error, but do deliver  the message
anyway.  LISTSERV  has no  way  to  know that  the  message  was in  fact
delivered, and in most cases the subscriber is not aware of the existence
of these  false error reports.  If this  happens to you,  LISTSERV will
send you  another message with a  copy of the delivery  error returned by
your mail system, so that you can show it to your technical people.

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