At 12:29 PM +0000 11/14/04, lee wrote:
>In your experience is it ok to treat a bounce error as shown below as 'user unknown' or does it literally imply a temporary problem with an otherwise active address ?
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>550 [SUSPEND] Mailbox currently suspended - Please contact correspondent directly
I publish an Ezine so the problem is probably different with than with an open-ended list serv.
With the Ezine, I file these replies and periodically check to see if they occur for consecutive issues. If they do, the name is either dropped or some other action is taken to confirm continued interest by the individual.
With an interactive listserv, it seems the problem would identify itself more quickly because each message would or would not produce the same bounce error.
If it's a person you want to "keep," your choice of follow-up will be different than if you don't care about losing them.
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