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stop sending me this stuff. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Dralle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: KR-List: Getting Bounced From Matronics Lists... > --> KR-List message posted by: Matt Dralle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Dear Listers, > > I have two programs I run regularly to purge the various Matronics email > lists of bad email addresses. I referred to these as my Email Weasels and > there is a daily version that is run automatically every night at midnight > and there is a and a monthly version that I run by hand at roughly 30-day > intervals. > > The Daily Weasel grinds through the 8 to 10mb of bounced email that is > generated each day looking for obvious things like "user unknown", "host > unknown", and other things that usually mean the user's email address > doesn't exist any longer. The Daily Weasel has been purging 5 to 10 email > addresses each night. > > The Monthly Weasel gets more serious about the task and sends a single > message to each list member with specially generated headers and content > information. Any bounces or replies to these messages are considered > errors and the email address is eligible for purging. This program is > particularly useful for "weaseling out" email addresses that are actually > being forwarded to by another email address that is subscribed to a List > and otherwise would not be identifiable. The Monthly Weasel purges roughly > 100 nonexistent email addresses each month when it is run. > > To check to see if your address has been removed by either of the Email > Weasel programs, you can check the Weasel Status Web Page at the following URL: > > http://www.matronics.com/unsubscribed > > If you find your email address on the Weasel List, but are certain that > everything is working fine now, simply go the Matronics Subscription page > and resubscribe your address. No harm, no foul. The subscription URL is: > > http://www.matronics.com/subscribe > > > That all having been said, I've noticed that the Daily Weasel may have been > getting a little too aggressive in purging addresses recently and a number > of people have written asking if and why they'd been dropped from the List. > > A couple of months ago I rewrote the Daily Weasel program to include a > wider variety of errors and more aggressively purge. One of the new purge > criteria that I added seems to occur a fair amount of the time (Connection > Deferred) even though the address is really okay. > > As of today, I've removed the Connection Deferred criteria from the Daily > Weasel Rule set and this should decrease the number of "false positives" > and unnecessary unsubscribed. > > Again, if you get unsubscribed by either of the Email Weasel utilities, > simply go to the subscription page and resubscribe: > > http://www.matronics.com/subscribe > > > Best regards, > > Matt Dralle > Matronics Email List Admin. > > > Matt G Dralle | Matronics | PO Box 347 | Livermore | CA | 94551 > 925-606-1001 V | 925-606-6281 F | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email > http://www.matronics.com/ WWW | Featuring Products For Aircraft > > > They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little > temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. > > Benjamin Franklin > Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 > > _-======================================================================= _-= - The KR-List Email Forum - _-= This forum is sponsored entirely through the Contributions of _-= List members. You'll never see banner ads or any other form _-= of direct advertising on the Matronics Forums. _-======================================================================= _-= !! NEW !! _-= Browse List: Use your web browser to view the latest messages. _-= Photo Share: Share photos and files with other List members. _-======================================================================= _-= List Related Information _-= Post Message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _-= UN/SUBSCRIBE: http://www.matronics.com/subscription _-= Photo Share: http://www.matronics.com/photoshare _-= Browse List: http://www.matronics.com/browselist/kr-list _-= Search Engine: http://www.matronics.com/search _-= Archives: http://www.matronics.com/archives _-= List Specific: http://www.matronics.com/kr-list _-= Other Lists: http://www.matronics.com/emaillists _-= Contributions: http://www.matronics.com/contribution _-= Matronics: http://www.matronics.com/ _-=======================================================================
