John Withers wrote: > >> The stale bounce info is not reset until another bounce arrives. Thus, >> old bounce info usually remains forever, but it does no harm. If a new >> bounce arrives, the stale info will be forgotten and the user given a >> score of 1 with the current date. >> > >Hmmm, so when it says specifically "The number of days after which a >member's bounce information is discarded, if no new bounces have been >received in the interim." It doesn't actually mean it. It means number >of days after which a member's bounce information is discarded if we >happen to get another bounce. Hmmm. Not good.
It means the number of days after which a member's bounce info is ignored. Change the word 'discarded' to ' ignored' and it is a correct statement, at least in current Mailman. >Ah, if only it were true that it does no harm. > >Following scenario: for various reasons, the bounces were set >exceptionally high on a list: 300. Now a new administrator takes over, >sees that things aren't as they should be. Says, hmmm, we should lower >that into reality and lose all these dead accounts I know we are >carrying, lowers the number to 7. > >Suddenly, a lot of perfectly good users get hit with disable's. >Secondly, the behavior is baffling to the admin, because the text for >the bounce_info_stale_after is clear that these old bounces should have >been discarded. That behavior is the result of a bug that was fixed in 2.1.10. cron/disabled now resets the bounce info in this circumstance instead of disabling the member. -- Mark Sapiro <[email protected]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
