15 Jul
1999
15 Jul
'99
4:42 a.m.
I subscribe to lots of mailman lists.
Sometimes, mailman disables my email address. I have no doubt that it's
for a good reason. However, that reason is for a certain group of users
fairly temporary (down server). As it stands, I periodically find out
that I've been disabled on fairly quiet lists that I don't expect to read
every day. It'd be nice if mailman could 'ping' the email address
periodically (once a week?) to find out if the problem is resolved.
Something progressively more expensive like
if ping_ok and SMTP_VRFY_ok and first_email_goes_in_queue_goes_through: undisable_email()
would do the job in 96% of the cases w/ low overhead, I suspect.
--david