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List:       list-managers
Subject:    RE: MSN-Nondeliverable Mail
From:       Vince Sabio <vince-lists () vjs ! org>
Date:       1999-08-29 7:31:29
Message-ID: v04210129b3ee9199e2e2 () [207 ! 252 ! 88 ! 49]
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** Sometime around 09:36 -0700 08/23/1999, Sam Brooks sent us:

>I then join your list with me@msn.com
>Everything OK, then address bounces.
>
>MSN notifies you, the listowner, that me@classic.msn.com
>in not valid.  So, you now send an email command to the
>server to uns*b me@classic.msn.com.  And what happens,
>the server comes back and says, me@classic.msn.com,
>is not a member of whatever list.
>
>Solution:  Most of the time, just drop the prefixes
>in the email address in front of msn.com and send
>the addy in.  OR, pull down your subscriber list
>and look for the address there.  I've never had a
>msn member that was not on my subscriber list.
>However, most of the time is was just not in a
>form the computer would recognize.

<gratuitous plug> SmartBounce will automate this address-matching
process for you. See http://www.smartbounce.com for more info on
bounce handling ad nauseam. </plug>

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