[ietf-nntp] unsubscribing users too aggressively

[Eric A. Hall]

On 6/21/2004 12:06 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:

> bounce ratio up to something like 10.0 for this group (so that it takes
> ten bounces without a successful delivery before someone is
> unsubscribed)? There may also be some way of filtering out bad
> content-types, although I don't know if that would cause problems for
> some things people might want to send to the list.  (I think most of
> the viruses are attached as simple application/octet-stream.)

Better yet, would be to see if there is an option for detecting failures
with RCPT-TO versus DATA... You shouldn't be unsubbing people unless
RCPT-TO fails, or an excessive amount of other failures. REJECTS on DATA
don't signify anything except "contents refused"

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