Hello All -
There are two reasons for this post to the list - 1st is I needed to test the list so this is something to say. 2nd - I found an answer to a problem that creeped into the list recently. We've recently had a few people question why they were not receiving anything from the pestlist. Our testing worked - we were unable to find any problems - until now. In one of the updates a new feature was added that would automatically remove you from the list if your email bounced too many times. In some ways this was a good thing - those that changed their emails and not tell us where automatically removed from the list. But there are other reasons that bounces happen - your service provider puts in new, tighter spam filtering - and we get bounced. AOL is especially good for this one. The down side was that the default setting was 2, just a bit low for real life - all networks have problems sometimes and over a few months a couple bounces is not unreasonable. In a normal mail situation if you email gets bounced the service will try to send it multiple times - some for up to three days - before officially bouncing it but the default system limit of 2 times didn't work. I found this new feature today and decided that we could turn it off in our situation, we'll just keep an eye on the bounces and see if there is a good limit for us or if we can just leave it off. So you have to admit this was way more interesting than "This is a test." And after typing that and looking at it I go, well maybe not. Leon Zak l...@zaks.com <mailto:l...@zaks.com> http://zaks.com
