[Mailman-Developers] re: bounce action notification

[Charlie Clark]

On 2003-02-26 at 18:00:06 [+0100], mailman-developers-request at python.org 
wrote:
> 
> Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
> > you go tell hotmail to fix itself, Barry. 
> 
> ...or tell your users to drop that piece of crap.
> 
> yes yes, I know, millions on the Internet, elitist attitude, yadda yadda.

Actually it's worse than that it's counterproductive and that for two 
reasons: criticising the what a user uses is implied criticism of the user 
and this is not very friendly and as Chuq has pointed out may cause them to 
leave; more importantly, however, the big mail services are interested in 
having as good a relationship with list-servers as well. They like bounces 
as much as we do so they are really happy the fewer they get. Talking to 
the admins can be surprisingly helpful. I've got a list with a huge bias 
towards hotmail and will be talking to them about working together as well 
as possible. I'll post any useful response.

Charlie