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List:       list-managers
Subject:    Re: List Managers Digest V3 #168
From:       mpmNS () newhamp ! hampshire ! edu (Michelle Murrain)
Date:       1994-09-22 22:08:40
Message-ID: 9409230208.AA24897 () newhamp ! hampshire ! edu
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Keith Moore writes:
>In general, a list manager has only one reliable strategy
>to deal with bogus addresses:  to delete any address
>for which mail bounces consistently.  Even someone with
>considerable e-mail expertise will end up doing this most 
>of the time.   There are odd cases where it is possible
>to recognize the problem and fix it, but this is the
>rare exception rather than the rule.

What I do is simply remove the address. If the person wants to be on the
list, they will write me and say "I haven't been getting mail from the *
list." Then usually the two of us, sometimes including their host
postmaster comes up with a strategy to get them on the list w/o bounces.

                        Michelle
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Michelle Murrain
School of Natural Science
Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 01002
mmurrain@hamp.hampshire.edu
mmurrain@family.hampshire.edu
URL: http://www.hampshire.edu/Hampshire/ns/html/Murrain.html




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