> Is anyone else getting bounceback messages from compuserve and WOW because > of someone's mail box being "too full"? > > Is there a way to drop these addresses from the list and make them resub > after they get their sh** together?
There is, but it means one of owner-harp-l having enough time to a) spot the bounces and b) do the unsubbing.
The *real* problem is compuserv's braindead mailer. That's why email has "From" and "Errors-To" headers, so that mailers can send errors to the right plkace, rather than blindly bouncing stuff back to an entire mailing list.
The problem with owner-harp-l having enough time to process bounces is the sheer volume of them. Here's my two harp-l bounced mail folders, where bounces get auto-filtered (using procmail):
... that's over 7Mb of harp-l bounced mail, and 1.3Mb of harp-l-digest bounces. Less than 1% of the bounced mail goes out to the list, so for every 1 bounced message you see, owner-harp-l sees about 100.
I've been working on auto-bouncing scripts for about 2 years now, but it's almost impossible to handle all bounced mail automagically, as every mailer in the universe usesd a different format for the error messages, there is no standard (or rather, there is, but folk like compuserv, aol and the like completely ignore it and do their own thing).
All I can do right now is say that if you are experiencing lots of bounce messages from a particular address, mail owner-harp-l and ask to have them bounced. I can't tell which addresses are causing the most problems, as I receive my mail in a very different fashion to y'all, and never "see" any bounces (they get filtered into a script that attempts to grok the bad address and remove them from the list).
If you do want someone bounced, please forward an example bounce message in your request to owner-harp-l.
