On Sun, 21 Apr 1996, Loren Miller wrote:
> A variable setting for each mailing list that allows the list owner
> to choose whether s/he wants to see SUBSCRIPTION and UNSUBSCRIPTION
> notices or not. On a highly active list you get so many of these that
> it becomes an annoyance.
My suggestion is to get procmail which will filter your mail. I use this
to filter these message to /dev/null (the trash)
> An additional module that I can point my errors-to header towards
> that would process bounced messages based on a more-or-less inclusive
> set of criteria and assemble a list of subscribers who have generated
> one or more bounces and who should be unsubscribed or moved to the
> bounces list, then assemble messages for APPROVAL and send them to
> the moderators of the appropriate mailing lists. I own/moderate 7
> mailing lists with a total of 6000 or so subscribers and they
> generate an incredible number of bounces each week. They generate far
> more bounce messages than I can process regularly, and I often just
> go through the mbox file with grep and awk to find the people who had
> undeliverable mail and then generate a script which usually dies a
> premature death from forking the stack into oblivion, but manages to
> unsub a sizable proportion of them. Anyway, this is something that I
> think could be added into the majordomo program suite without a lot
> of problems. Anybody better than I am at perl who wants to code it?
I moderate 13 lists (or so) with over 6500 subscribers and I have a
similar problem. My suggestion is again, to use procmail to filter the
mail into seperate folders so that you can work on one task at a time
(bounced messages, approval messages, etc etc).
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