From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 12 9: 0:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n66.san.rr.com (dt011n66.san.rr.com [204.210.13.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3E7015B7A; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 09:00:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt011n66.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA24959; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 08:59:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <38035AFD.2C647063@gorean.org> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 08:59:57 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT-0927 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: People getting automatically unsub'ed from -arch References: <199910111653.JAA57276@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: > > > > > > > "Accidental" removals from the lists are so common that I give up. I no > > > longer even try to get back on them -- it's been happening for _years_ now, > > > and I have made multiple complaints about it, and if it's not a problem for > > > whoever runs the mailing lists, then I just don't care that much. > > > > only one comment. i remove people from the lists whenever > > their email bounces. the threshhold is approximately 30 messages in a > > 24 hour period. mail may bounce due to DNS problems, mail box full, > > MTA misconfiguration. i also remove people that send vacation > > messages to the list. oh, and spammers. > > Perhaps these threshholds could use some minor adjustments, or perhaps > my interpretation of the above policy is not quite what really happens. Having been in a situation similar to Jonathan's (managing a large site, many lists, thousands of users) I can only say that it's hard to appreciate the difficulty of the task without experiencing it. I think he does a fine job, extending people more patience than I used to. :) Doug -- "Stop it, I'm gettin' misty." - Mel Gibson as Porter, "Payback" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message