Thanks, Leon. Tom Parker
Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 22, 2015, at 11:34 PM, <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello All – > > There are two reasons for this post to the list – 1st is I needed to test the > list so this is something to say. 2nd – I found an answer to a problem that > creeped into the list recently. > > We’ve recently had a few people question why they were not receiving anything > from the pestlist. > Our testing worked – we were unable to find any problems – until now. In one > of the updates a new feature was added that would automatically remove you > from the list if your email bounced too many times. > > In some ways this was a good thing – those that changed their emails and not > tell us where automatically removed from the list. But there are other > reasons that bounces happen – your service provider puts in new, tighter spam > filtering - and we get bounced. AOL is especially good for this one. > > The down side was that the default setting was 2, just a bit low for real > life – all networks have problems sometimes and over a few months a couple > bounces is not unreasonable. In a normal mail situation if you email gets > bounced the service will try to send it multiple times – some for up to three > days – before officially bouncing it but the default system limit of 2 times > didn’t work. > > I found this new feature today and decided that we could turn it off in our > situation, we’ll just keep an eye on the bounces and see if there is a good > limit for us or if we can just leave it off. > > So you have to admit this was way more interesting than “This is a test.” > > And after typing that and looking at it I go, well maybe not. > > Leon Zak > [email protected] > http://zaks.com > >
