Hi Simon, @29-Oct-2003, 08:46 Simon said:
>> Your membership in the mailing list TBUDL has been disabled due >> to excessive bounces > Well this is very odd! Apart from a brief outage of about 10 > minutes early yesterday due to a faulty network cable I have been > recieving uninterrupted mail from other lists and people without > any problems. And furthermore, the message notifying me that list > mail had been suspended was delivered to my list address ??? > What's that about then? It means that the list has accumulated bounce data on your address over time and has decided that enough is enough <g>. ... <snip> > And just how many bounces is 'excessive' btw? Okay - you asked for it! ,------/ From the MailMan config screen \------ When a bounce is received, Mailman tries to extract two pieces of information from the message: the address of the member the message was intended for, and the severity of the problem causing the bounce. The severity can be either hard or soft meaning either a fatal error occurred, or a transient error occurred. When in doubt, a hard severity is used. If no member address can be extracted from the bounce, then the bounce is usually discarded. Otherwise, each member is assigned a bounce score and every time we encounter a bounce from this member we increment the score. Hard bounces increment by 1 while soft bounces increment by 0.5. We only increment the bounce score once per day, so even if we receive ten hard bounces from a member per day, their score will increase by only 1 for that day. When a member's bounce score is greater than the bounce score threshold, the subscription is disabled. Once disabled, the member will not receive any postings from the list until their membership is explicitly re-enabled (either by the list administrator or the user). However, they will receive occasional reminders that their membership has been disabled, and these reminders will include information about how to re-enable their membership. `------\ End /------ The current bounce threshold is 5. This means that 5 days of hard bounces in a 7 day period will result in a suspension. The problem with this is that one glitch per day will result in an unfair suspension. Actually, I think the problem may be the "stale after" setting. This will reset the bounce count if no new bounces happen after 'n' days. This was set to 7. I think 2 is more appropriate. -- Cheers -- .\\arck D Pearlstone -- List moderator SB! v2.01.12 on Windows XP 5.1.2600 Service Pack 1 '
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