Guest guest Posted April 23, 1999 Report Share Posted April 23, 1999 eGroups explanation of " bouncing " - I'm sending this in an attempt to help group members understand that WACMA doesn't `turn off' anyones mail, it's done automatically by eGroups and for a good reason. (It might be a pain in the butt for you, but it's more of a pain in the butt for us ;-) ----- What is a " bouncing " e-mail address? A subscriber whose address is listed as " Bouncing " is one whose e-mail host is reporting an error of some sort when we attempt to deliver a message. This can be caused by temporary network disconnects, running out of disk space for e-mail, non-payment of an ISP bill, or in the case of students, graduation. If after three weeks of trying once per day, the e-mail account still does not work, eGroups will stop attempting. The subscriber, if registered, will still be able to come to the website and read the messages there. For those times when a subscriber lets you know that their e-mail account is working again, we provide a way to reset the bounce status. Once the status is reset, the system will again try to deliver each message, rather than just one per day. It is not necessary or helpful in most cases to reset the bounce status of a subscriber. It will be reset automatically as soon as the e-mail address starts working again. Anyone who has ever attempted to run a large e-mail distribution list without the help of sophisticated " bounce processing " will know how much trouble bad addresses can cause. Bad addresses routinely get redelivered many times so they cost much more to keep on a group than a valid subscriber. As a result, they could slow down message delivery to people whose e-mail accounts actually work. ----------- FYI- WACMA is one of the largest groups that's hosted at eGroups Chip =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= E-mail: chip@... (ACM-1, 30 months post-op) St Croix Beach, Minnesota Home page: Http://www.pressenter.com/~chip/chiari.htm =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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