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members removed due to bouncing

2009-01-11 by Richard

There was no mistake made the members that were removed were removed 
because they had months/years of hard bouncing history. Hex If your 
not sure how this works read below.

Soft bounces (busy signal) happen when your email box fills up and 
new mail gets returned with a "mailbox full" message.

Hard bounces (number disconnected) happen when you cancel your email 
address or change ISPs. Messages to the old email address will get 
returned with a "user unknown" type of message. Also, some free email 
services like Yahoo and Hotmail will deactivate an email address if 
you haven't logged in to their service within some time period and 
then you'll see "account deactivated" type of messages, these are 
also hard bounces.

When these bounces are received by the list interface, Yahoogroups, 
Smartgroups, Topica, Mailman, etc., the list interface may set you to 
bouncing status and stop sending you list mail. Yahoo also sends you 
a repeated ping message to let you know that your Email is not 
working.

Sorry if this caused any issues but I have yet to see or hear from 
any of these members as their emails were all dead long ago. I am a 
little pissed I was removed as a Moderator for doing standard 
maintenance on the list as it is my job. But whatever....
Rich

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