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[Olivier Salaün - CRU <address@concealed>]

You're right, we need to explain how bounce are managed :
The Sympa algorithm for scoring bouncing users is smart enough to avoid removing users that :

• have bounced for one day only (because their mail server was down)
• have bounced 10 times whereas the list traffic is 100 mesages a day

Therefore we compare the bouncing informations with the list traffic and given our algorithm, bouncing users might have a score of 0 though Sympa has received a few bounced for them.

The algorithm for computing the bounce score is deeply explained in the documentation :
http://www.sympa.org/doc/html/node24.html

Miles Fidelman wrote:

any idea why all the bounce scores, for every list, would all be 0?

not yet, though it seems like this may not actually be a problem - I am seeing some emails that score higher, and some that score high enough to trip auto-deletion - so it may be that a score of 0 is appropriate for some messages (though some clarification would be appreciated)