Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 08:38:20 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: sderdau@bit-net.com (Stephen Derdau) Cc: ru@ucb.crimea.ua, postmaster@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Do FreeBSD mailing lists have subscription expiration? Message-ID: <199807091538.IAA29501@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <35A49B6F.F9106B30@bit-net.com> from Stephen Derdau at "Jul 9, 98 06:29:03 am"
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Stephen Derdau wrote: > I don't think they expire.... > If mail is sent to the address and bounces back a few times they will > take it off the list I believe. > If that didn't happen then I would say something happened > on their end . > Hope this helps no we do not expire people, we have talked about doing it but have chosen not to force people to renew their subscriptions every X months. if an address bounces more that ~20 messages in a day, without warning me first, that address may be removed from all the FreeBSD mailing lists. therefore, to stay on the lists: 1. make sure that your DNS never disappears get others to provide a secondary DNS server for you offer to do the same for them. 2. make sure that you have at least one MX record that points offsite. offer to do the same for someone else. 3. never let your MX hosts stay down or more than a couple days. jmb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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