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[Miles Fidelman <address@concealed>]

Olivier,

Thanks for the explanation!

One comment for the next time you revise the documentation:  a score of 
0 seems confusing - it leads to the question "why is this address listed 
at all?"   So, perhaps it's worth including a specific sentence that a 
score of 0 is a normal occurance.

But this does lead to one more question that's not in the documentation: 
do addresses get automatically removed from the bounce list if their 
score stays at 0 for some length of time?

Regards,

Miles

Olivier Salaün - CRU wrote:
> 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)