12/6/00 1:57 PM, John J. Donohue a écrit:
> You're nicer then I am. I don't want the dead traffic going thru my system
> or taking away 'upstream' bandwidth. When a user leaves here, we go into
> /etc/passwd and put an 'x' in front of the name (fred becomes xfred) and
> their mail starts bouncing with 'no such user'. It's amazing how fast
> listservs/admins who ignore sysadmin drop requests, modify their membership
> lists when mail starts bouncing back to them.....
Well, no - initially, I *did* just disable the account. This has been going
on for months! I have sendmail set to copy bounces to postmaster, so this
guy's account made sifting through bounces a miserable experience. After my
best efforts at contacting listmasters, etc., I just '/dev/null'ed him.
I do agree: I'd rather not have the mail headed in here at all. What
concerns me is that so many list maintainers don't deal with bounces
properly. This guy just happened to be on a few high volume lists.
By way of example: I still have Newsday sending recipes to a user who left
two years ago! Amazon continues to send book of the day recommendations to
someone now gone for one year. But those I can deal with due to their low
volume.
Maybe I will un-'dev/null' the account and let the list-gods sort it out.
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