> "Ronald F. Guilmette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >Why does it make any sense to send yet another message to an address that
> >you already know and believe is dead?
>
> Because you don't know it's dead--you just know it's bouncing. I've
> seen several cases where bounced messages were *also* successfully
> delivered. If you don't send the user a message saying "Hey, your mail
> is bouncing", they may never realize it.
>
which is why the majordomo solution of placing "bouncing subscribers" onto a
special "bounces" (list which sends the message that the subscriber has been
removed for many days after they have been removed) work so well.
-phil
> -Dave
>
>
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Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis MO 63110
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