Disable subscription disabling after multiple bounced emails

Orvid King blah38621 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 10 14:57:44 PDT 2014


Well, it just bounced me off of the d.learn list as well...

On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 13:52:57 -0500, Brad Roberts <braddr at puremagic.com>  
wrote:

> I'm looking into this, but from the looks of it, yahoo has really  
> screwed the world on this one.  I can re-enable all of the suspended  
> accounts (a couple hundred, which interestingly isn't every account) but  
> I'm not sure it won't immediately recur.
>
> I really don't want to disable the bounce detection option.  There's  
> enough users that drop their accounts without unsubscribing that this  
> system picks up and handles automatically that it's rather useful to  
> me.  Without it I have to find those users among the hundreds of  
> non-list oriented bounces I get that are just spam related crap.  It's  
> doable, but sucks.  This is the !fun part of infrastructure  
> maintainership.
>
> On 4/10/14, 8:17 AM, Orvid King wrote:
>> As you may or may not have noticed, everyone's subscription to
>> digitalmars.D was just disabled due to too many bounces. Blame Yahoo.
>> Blame them 100% for you having to re-subscribe. Blame them for not
>> having done anything about the problem since they implemented their
>> broken rules last weekend. And finally read
>> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg87153.html to
>> understand why you were unsubscribed from the list. Then bug the right
>> person to do the same as John and disable the mechanism that disables
>> subscriptions after multiple bounced emails.


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