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Re: Re: List-Managers-Digest V4 #32 |
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elendil @
mintir .
new-orleans .
la .
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Minas Tirith BBS (Public Access Usenet for New Orleans) |
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Wed, 22 Feb 95 16:29:23 CST |
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list-managers @
greatcircle .
com |
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by mintir.new-orleans.la.us (1.65/waf)via UUCP; Wed, 22 Feb 95 16:32:19 CSTfor list-managers@greatcircle.com |
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<9502221106.aa01864@fsm-1.pica.army.mil> |
Info-LabVIEW List Maintainer <rex!pica.army.mil!info-labview-request> writes:
> >I already have a no-tolerance policy in place. The problem is that AOL boun
> >messages in such a volume that the damage is already done by the time I drop
> >the user. If 10 messages go out tomorrow to 3 AOL users who either have ful
> >mailboxes or don't exist any more (30-day wonders), that means 30 bounce
> >messages hit my system (and that of my mailhost's sysadmin) *before* my
> >zero-tolerance policy kicks in. Last Saturday, that situation happened
> >with 8 AOL users, making for close to 80 messages. Making sense now?
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> No. If you had 8 .edu addresses with full mailboxes, that would still have
> given you 80 bounces, right? Or 8 .mil addresses, or 1 .mil, 2 .gov, 1 .com
> & 4 .oz? Or does the math work differently?
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You've got the math right. The catch is that I've never had that many people
fill up their mailboxes on the same day as happens on AOL. No domain on the
net has ever generated as many bounce message for any reason in the three years
I've been running my list than aol.com. That's why I raised the issue--to see
if my situation was unique.
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