John Aldrich wrote:
>
> On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> > I've been ignoring a lot of this list just cause I don't really have time to
> > read a couple hundred emails a day. Then I noticed that I too have been getting
> > bounced emails from mindspring. Can you give me a brief rundown of the problem
> > here? I think I'll play along and forward these things to
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] if it really is their problem.
> >
> The problem is that a former employee of racetrac (a chain
> of discount gas stations in the southern US) signed up for
> the "newbie" list and then either quit or got fired w/o
> unsubscribing from the list That caused an "invalid user"
> email back with every message posted to the list. So, you
> see, it's not really a Mindspring problem so much as it is
> a "racetrac.com" or mandrakesoft.com problem. :-)
Surely there is something the list maintainers can do to stop this from
happening in the future. If a message from the mailing list is returned
as undeliverable (and is a permanent undeliverable), automatically
unsubscribe the address. Mail servers WILL tell you whether the failure
is permanent or temporary (like a full mailbox, etc).
--
Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
