Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 10:22:29 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: Doug@gorean.org (Doug) Cc: jmb@hub.freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: People getting automatically unsub'ed from -arch Message-ID: <199910121722.KAA70522@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <38035AFD.2C647063@gorean.org> from Doug at "Oct 12, 1999 08:59:57 am"
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> "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. :) And just who did you think passed the hat onto JMB? He is doing an outstanding job of postmaster, but it seems we have a small problem that perhaps can easily be fixed by some minor adjustments, perhaps not. The biggest part of my response was an attempt to more fully understand his current ``policy'', in that the original statements about it where lacking in detail. -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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