Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 22:37:32 -0600 (MDT) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: ben@scientia.demon.co.uk (Ben Smithurst) Cc: jmb@hub.freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: People getting automatically unsub'ed from -arch Message-ID: <199910130437.WAA31455@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <19991013045850.A4025@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> from Ben Smithurst at "Oct 13, 1999 04:58:51 am"
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Ben Smithurst wrote... > Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > > > i do NOT send the person mail to inform them that the are > > being removed from the mailing lists, because their email is bouncing. > > How about sending a message to them once every 24 hours for, say, > a week? I imagine some of those bounces are due to temporary > mis-configurations which will soon be fixed. I dunno what jmb's general experience is, but my experience from the 15 or so lists that I manage is that most bounces are from people who switch ISPs, etc., and don't unsubscribe. (Quota violations are another popular cause nowadays.) It generally isn't worth the effort to send mail informing them of the fact that they've been unsubscribed, since it'll almost always keep bouncing. They'll figure it out when they stop getting mail, if they care about the list. Things might be different, of course, for the FreeBSD lists since people on these lists are generally much more clueful. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the messagehelp
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