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