2000-11-05 00:31:05

by Mathieu ChouquetStringer

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Subject: [NOISE] Is the mailing list dead?

It has been at least 2 days since the last message I received...

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Mathieu CHOUQUET-STRINGER E-Mail : [email protected]
Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and
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2000-11-05 13:06:15

by Matti Aarnio

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Subject: Re: [NOISE] Is the mailing list dead?

On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 07:30:31PM -0500, Mathieu ChouquetStringer wrote:
> It has been at least 2 days since the last message I received...

Looks like all @wanadoo.fr addresses have been kicked out.

That ISP has a habit of returning 500-series reponse codes
with supplementary text of style:
"System is too busy, please come back latter"

Which of course generates error bounce (like all 500 series
codes are supposed to by the RFC 821) leading to removal
of erroring address from the list.

Had we fully automated the removal process, both WANADOO.FR
and GMX.NET/GMX.DE/GMX.AT users would get kicked out every day
around 18-24 CET (UTC+1h). Now it is matter of manual oversight,
and while I have been lenient letting those users be, listowners
have different minds.

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> Mathieu CHOUQUET-STRINGER E-Mail : [email protected]

/Matti Aarnio -- assistant <[email protected]>