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Probe all you want; just don't ask me to bend over.
>From: List Maintainer <omega-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx>
>To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Administrivia
>Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 09:38:44 -0700
>
>Many of you wrote, wondering why you were getting "Test" messages from
>the omega-list administration. The reason is that sometimes a subscriber's
>address will go bad, but because they're subscribed through some sort of
>"forwarding" service, the address referred to in the error messages their
>real ISP sends to the list control address is not their subscription
>address. Most of the time, these error messages include real email
>headers that allow me to trace who the culprit is and manually remove
>the offending address from the list. But some sites aren't so cooperative,
>and though they send LOTS of error messages, those messages contain
>absolutely no useful tracing information.
>
>When that happens, I must send individual test probes to suspected
>addresses,
>and hope that one of them will come back as an error message. I can then
>use that error message to remove the dead subscriber.
>
>Usually, I can isolate the set of test addresses to some subset of the
>subscriber list, and avoid bothering everybody with test probes. But
>sometimes the offender is not so obvious, or the initial subsets fail
>to return the error message I'm looking for. And sometimes I just don't
>have time to comb through the list of some two thousand names, weeding
>those I'm sure are not the guilty party.
>
>As the message says, the best thing to do with the test probe is to
>ignore it---simply delete it silently. It's the one error message I'm
>looking for, from the one that did NOT get through. All the rest are
>unfortunate noise, made necessary because some email-system admininstrator
>set up some really stupid error reporting configuration.
>
>I hope that clears up that bit of confusion.
>
>--
>jimo@xxxxxxxxxx
>maintainer of the omega-list
>omega-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx
>
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