[LINK] Housekeeping: users disabled by the system in Link

[Ivan Trundle]

> On 3 Dec 2015, at 8:25 AM, Tom Worthington <Tom.Worthington at tomw.net.au> wrote:
> 
> On 01/12/15 18:32, Ivan Trundle wrote:
> 
>> I’m receiving a number of excessive bounce disabling messages from
>> the Link membership ... Is it acceptable to remove these ...
> 
> Yes, chop them.

I’ve thought long and hard about this: there are a few (maybe ten or so) where I can identify people who have moved on, changed address, or left altogether - and there are some that are clearly ’temporary’ addresses that appear inactive, plus quite a few from ISPs that no longer exist. The .gov.au domain and com.au domain are predominant, but there’s no real pattern.

In any event, I can’t publicise the email addresses (it isn’t good practice, and not polite), but I know that mailman has had enough and given up trying to send to these addresses for quite some time. I cannot, however, easily identify the ‘when’ - I tend not to keep the excessive bounce messages for more than a few days.

Some people I can recognise because either the email address is ‘plain’ or because they have added in their name to Mailman - but I’m now leaning towards a straightforward cull: and to get around any issues, I recommend that people bookmark the links at the foot of this email and rejoin, if in spite of Mailman’s insistence that the email is dead, they somehow find the archive or find emails dating back to today.

Removing all 96 will take some time, but it will convert the Link list back into something that demonstrates who properly still exists - rather than demonstrating that a large chunk of people are no longer at the nominated address given.

Jim Birch - you’ll be kept in the list!

Warmly
iT