On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:41:35PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > It's not much less annoying on high volume lists ("Gee, that'll be why > I'm getting sent all this mail for the list then."). Try administering either sometime. I ran a small list of maybe a hundred or so people. Low volume, would get maybe 100-200 messages a month on a busy month. I had an average of 5-10 addresses not on the list bouncing to me every month. So every month I'd run a script that took the list's delivery list and send out an "administrative note" to catch those addresses as there was no other way. I imagine the problem is far worse on large lists; esp. when it started digging into the effciency of the overall system. Oddly enough I never got any complaints about my administative notes. They were regular and easily filtered. A task that the users easily managed. Same with the monthly reminders. Don't want them, filter 'em. It is exactly 1 delivery per month and I'd wager you could catch all mailman reminder notices with one filter. Consider it part of the price of participating in a maintained mailing list. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. -------------------------------+---------------------------------------------
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