Doug, It is a great list, and I am very grateful for all the time and effort you put into it.
I can't even imagine coping with 1500 messages a day... Rick --- Doug Brewer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's an inexact science. I receive around a thousand > bounce messages a > day, along with quarantine notifications, > out-of-office replies, etc., > all piled up to be 1500 or so...and like I told Bob, > the grifante stuff > didn't stand out as excessive. > > Most days I give the bounce folder a cursury glance > to see if anything > jumps out at me. If it does, I consider unsubbing > the account, or put it > on the back burner to see if the situation is > temporary. > > If the bounces are coming from a regular on the > list, I generally assume > that person will notice the too-full mailbox and > rectify. There are, of > course, notable exceptions to > this..(cough*marnie*cough)... and the way > they figure out they are over quota is they get > unsubbed. > > If the bounces are coming from a lurker, I have a > shorter leash. It's > probably unfair, but what the heck. > > Now, if your mail server begins sending me messages > that it cannot > deliver your email, and that it will continue trying > to do so for five > days, be prepared for your ears to begin burning, > because I'll be > cursing. That's because, even if I go ahead and > unsub your account, your > mail server will still generate a bounce message > every time it tries to > deliver each message, multiple times over the next > five days. This is to > be avoided. > > Some days, if I have a spare few minutes, I'll do > some weeding. This > means I can take a deeper look at the bounce folder > to get rid of > accounts that have too many bounces. > > What's too many? I dunno. I used to have a hard > ceiling, actually had it > coded into the software, to bounce automatically, > but I kept upping the > ceiling in order to keep from having to answer all > the "Why did I get > unsubbed?" messages I got, and to keep Mark Roberts > on the list for more > than five minutes at a time. I finally got rid of > the ceiling altogether > so I could decide on things case by case. > > And that's where it stands now. > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
