On 9/13/07, Adam M. Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been getting the Chinese spam, as well as other spam. > > I also got a message asking me to renew membership in the list > because my address was generating a large number of "bounces." What > does this mean? I did renew, though.
Bouncing just means that the list couldn't deliver its messages to your address. This could be because of a flaky mail server on your end. If you're interested, here's exactly what happens when the list gets bounces: "When a bounce is received, Mailman tries to extract two pieces of information from the message: the address of the member the message was intended for, and the severity of the problem causing the bounce. The severity can be either hard or soft meaning either a fatal error occurred, or a transient error occurred. When in doubt, a hard severity is used. If no member address can be extracted from the bounce, then the bounce is usually discarded. Otherwise, each member is assigned a bounce score and every time we encounter a bounce from this member we increment the score. Hard bounces increment by 1 while soft bounces increment by 0.5. We only increment the bounce score once per day, so even if we receive ten hard bounces from a member per day, their score will increase by only 1 for that day. " If it keeps happening to you, I'd advise switching addresses or something, but if it only happened once, you can ignore it. -mike > > -Adam G > > On Sep 13, 2007, at 2:05 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > > > Hey Mike, > > > > Since we've now released two builds with the new exception mailing > > list address, I think we can probably start bouncing posts from non- > > subscribers without affecting too many people. I'm assuming everyone > > else has been receiving the Chinese spam? > > > > -- > > Adam > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > --- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Bibdesk-develop mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-develop > > ================================= > Adam M. Goldstein PhD > Assistant Professor of Philosophy > Iona College > -- > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > web: http://homepage.mac.com/amgoldstein/ > tel: (914) 637-2717 > post: Iona College > Department of Philosophy > 715 North Avenue > New Rochelle, NY 10801 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Bibdesk-develop mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-develop > -- Michael McCracken UCSD CSE PhD Candidate research: http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/~mmccrack/ misc: http://michael-mccracken.net/wp/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-develop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-develop
