On Mon, 2017-04-03 at 15:03 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote:
Actually, we try to be gentle with these folks and keep things as simple as possible. Some of them are pretty non-techie and these messages probably elicit a hormonal technophobia reaction. I'll just resubscribe them.
My list owner asks:
And is there any way to clear those bounce histories? If we do it once right now perhaps everyone would be good again for a while. The emails requesting "Click here to let us know you're alive" have been misinterpreted as spam or a malicious attack by many who see them, and I suspect that often they end up getting filtered out and never seen anyway. I can talk until I'm blue in the face about this to the list, but sooner or later people forget and panic again...
Hormonally-induced techno-alergic reaction!!
Good question! So we want to simply zero out all the bounce counts, and possibly the notification counts for the whole list on a one-time basis. Will turning off bounce_processing for a day or so do this?
I've encouraged Cindy Harris, the list admin, to join this list. She's very tech savvy and although she doesn't admin Mailman on a server, she asks good questions and deals with list management and tech support. I've told her that Mark, Brad, Barry et. al don't bite or act like tech-snobs! Cindy is an accomplished musician and helps manage a small ISP in Pennsylvania.
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