For most of our lists, we don't do mass subscribes so the only time we manually do anything is with uncaught bounce messages, which of course we remove manually if it is a true bounce and not just a malformed out of office message.
Now for our announce only lists, were we do quite a bit of mass subscriptions, I allow mailman to handle the bounce processing where it will and don't worry about it. I know that there are costs in doing this, but I believe it is cheaper and easier than having to manually deal with the situation. If mailman can't handle the bounce, then I manually remove the address and keep the address in a text file that will be used later. If a user does a simple unsubscribe, or sends an email to the list-owner, then we will add those addresses to the bounce file as well. After we perform any mass subscribe from whatever the data source, we always do a mass unsubscribe using our text file. This removes all the known bounce issues that mailman can't handle and the people who have told us they don't want our email. It is not a clean process and it takes a bit of time after each major mailing, but it works for us and keeps our complaints to a minimum. Bill Heath Technical Operations Manager Sunshine State One Call of Florida, Inc. 11 Plantation Road DeBary, FL 32713 Phone: (386) 575-2003 Fax: (386) 575-2033 Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] g] On Behalf Of Darrell Burkey Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 2:46 AM To: mailman-users@python.org Subject: [Mailman-Users] Preventing accidental resubscription I've had a client ask me how they can keep track of who unsubscribes from their lists so that they don't accidentally resubscribe the same address at some later point. Seems like just keeping a list of addresses of the unsubscribe notices that come in would be reasonable but they made the point that they would have to go through all the bounce notices as well to indentify addresses that were unsubscribed due to excessive bounces as well. I've done a fair amount of searching around and haven't seen the topic raised although it seems likely that it would have been. Unless anyone has any better advice I'm consider writinging a hack to copy unsubscribe addresses to a file that can be checked before subscribing someone. How do others handle this? Thanks in advance from downunder. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/bill.heath%40mail.c allsunshine.com Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
