- From: Ralph R. Swick <swick@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 09:49:00 -0500
- To: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com>
- Cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
At 07:32 AM 3/13/2001 -0700, Uche Ogbuji wrote: >... should the list drop people after a single >bounce? no, and as far as I know none of our W3C lists have the threshold set that low. www-rdf-interest has a threshold of 4 bounces. > The Net burps too frequently for that IMO. I know that the mailman >list admin software sets a configurable number of bounces after which it >notifies the admin, which would allow that admin to check on things before >dropping the subscriber. No one at W3C has time to devote to "checking on things" before telling the robot it's ok to drop a subscriber to a big list such as www-rdf-interest. (There are presently 467 addresses on this distribution list.) Especially if this means tracking bounces for, say, 24 hours, before taking remedial action. > in a high-traffic period, a >30-second network glitch could easily lead to 4 bounces. yes, but what number *would* be adequate? I suppose a time-based threshold would improve matters. I'll suggest this to our systems team. I'm not optimistic for a quick change. -Ralph
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