[Mailman-Users] 25,000 unsubscribes in 4 hrs

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

* Dan Sherbondy <dan at danshow.com>:
> Over a month ago I used mailman for a 100,000 mailing.
>  
> Yesterday, in a 4 hour span, I received 25,000 unsubscribe notifications
> such as "lupetherealtor at yahoo.com has been removed from TopCARealtors"

So 1/4 of the addresses was bad.

> I normally received 100 unsubscribes per mailing so I think something is
> wrong and dont want to remove these people from my list unless they
> really unsubscribed.
> 
> Is the unsubscribe notice used for bad addresses as well as
> unsubscribes?

Yes. So I guess what you're seeing is just the bad addresses.

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