On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 04:04:23PM -0500, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: > > [Changing followups to mailman-developers as this discussion really > belongs there. -BAW] > > >>>>> "DW" == Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > DW> I guess I'm wondering if anybody recalls the intent of this > DW> code. > > The only person who ever had a chance of understanding the intent is > John Viega, but he's been removed from Mailman hacking for so long, I > doubt even he remembers.
Hmm. So what's a reasonable intent for bounce handling? Here's a sketch. No doubt I misunderstand important points. Perhaps others would be kind enough to comment. Presuming the list is configured for automatic bounce handling at all, it would seem reasonable to claim that there are circumstances under which bounce handling might unsubscribe or disable mail to a subscriber. The sporadic bounce probably shouldn't cause this sort of action. So, there should be some forgiveness mechanism in place. Several bounces over a short period of time might reasonably be forgiven, or treated as a single bounce. Many situations that will cause a bounce involve some misconfiguration which the conscientious sysadmin will shamefacedly correct as soon as it is brought to his or her attention. A heavily trafficked list might not want to unsubscribe even members who cause several bounces, providing these fall within a short period of time. Several bounces over a longer period of time might be cause for suspension, even if posts are accepted between. The existing bounce handling makes some distinction I don't understand between "fatal" bounces and "nonfatal" bounces. Is this "no such user" versus "host busy", for example? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Manager & Editor SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549 Phone: 206-782-8808 Seattle, WA 98155-0549 URL http://embedded.linuxjournal.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers