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[Eric Christopherson]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 2:30 PM, geneb <geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 31 Jan 2017, Eric Christopherson wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 2:15 PM, geneb <geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 31 Jan 2017, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>>>
>>> Can someone please fix the mailing list software? This has been
>>>
>>>> reported every once in a while by a bunch of people for over ten
>>>> years.
>>>>
>>>> These are a just the last bounces I got:
>>>>
>>>> Bounces aren't caused by the mailing list, they're caused by the
>>>>
>>> destination mail server.
>>>
>>> g.
>>>
>>>
>> What causes the mailing list to suspend people when their server has been
>> sending bounces?
>>
>> That's default (and correct) behavior.
>

I was hoping for more details. Is it a defense mechanism for the list so
that email addresses that are no longer valid, even though they're still
subscribed, don't keep bouncing at the server mercilessly?