minor list changes

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Jay West wrote:

> I changed two things on the list setup tonight.
>
> 1) To subscribe to the list (new subscribers, not you guys), requires not
> only a confirmation email, but also list owner approval. I'm having way to
> much trouble with "people?" joining the list and all their email immediately
> bouncing. It gums up the speedy delivery for everyone else.

How about also sending a copy of the FAQ to new subscribers?  I know it's
not much (I swear I'll put time into updating it if I ever get some free
time) but it's something.

> 2) I changed the max time in queue for any message (outbound) to 35 minutes.
> This means the server will try to send email to you once, then again 30
> minutes later, and then it will just give up on you. It won't unsubscribe
> you at that point, it takes like 7 days of bounces to get you unsubbed. But
> it won't try to send you any given list post more than twice now. Same
> reason as above.

Can you please change that to something like 3 times with 2 hour
intervals?  Or at least allow it to try more than twice.  This still
doesn't help someone who has a 24 hour server outage thanks to their
stupid ISP (like I've been experiencing lately).

> For those sendmail inclined.... I considered setting up a secondary queue
> for slow delivery where any emails that take longer than X time get moved to
> a low priority queue. Quite frankly, I don't want to deal with it. I'd just
> get more complaints about posts being out of order ;)

This solution sounds preferable to me.

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