[Tfug] Web site update.

[Angus Scott-Fleming]

On 15 Apr 2006 at 22:20, Jon  wrote:

> Mailman takes these bounces and stops delivery to these addresses and
> states next to the account that it stopped due to bouncing. Once the
> reverse was fixed I went through the entire list that had a bounced
> subscriber and readded them. The problem with this is there were quite a
> few old addresses that got this way because they are no longer valid for
> whatever reason.
> 
> It appears this is one of those addresses. DOH. I knew this would happen
> but preferred to have legit addresses back on the list at this expense.
> 
> I will e-mail this person and apologize for the error. It appears they
> have already been removed so I don't need to help them which is good.

Too bad mailman doesn't store the date of deactivation along with the 
subscriber's name.

FWIW on all my mailman lists I have a cron job on a different machine that e-
mails that the machine a current list subscription list (daily or weekly 
depending on the list activity).  I do this so I can rebuild the current active 
list as of any given day (or week) if I have problems like this.  Also, if my 
list machine goes up in smoke, I can quickly advise list members of the problem 
through another system, and I can reactivate the current list elsewhere quickly 
if it's that kind of list.

Having current lists like this might have prevented the inadvertent addition of 
former subscribers.

FWIW, YMMV, etc.

Angus