Hey all, I was doing list maintenance again this weekend, flushing out the bouncing addresses and that sort of thing. I had been meaning to configure list probing earlier, but never got around to it. Well, I did it just this weekend.
What is a probe? The list will send out a subscription probe every so often. You don't need to do anything, just toss it. What the list is looking for is bounces. Too many bounces, and you get unsubscribed. The up side: I don't have to track and manually delete bouncing addresses The down side: Everyone gets a probe message every now and then (on the order of months, BTW). There could also be a unsubscription where one wasn't needed, due to transient bounces. What is a bounce? A bounce is a mail message that returns to the sender (or in this case, the list administrator) due to an inability to deliver it. This delivery failure is most often caused by: Mail server failure Mail box quota exceeded (your mailbox is full) invalid address (changed ISPs, account deleted, etc) Any questions or concerns, feel free to ask. Take care, Mike -- Michael Weaver (706)542-6462 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Engineering Services EITS University of Georgia, Athens Ga. )O( Public PGP key: http://www.arches.uga.edu/~weaver/pgp.html
