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[Dallas Wisehaupt <address@concealed>]

David,

Thanks, I have been looking at that page. The reason I ask about
adjusting the minimum_bouncing_period and minimum_bouncing_count is this
statement in the page:

    To avoid making decisions (i.e. defining a score) without enough
    relevant data, the score is not evaluated if:
        * The number of received bounces is lower than
          minimum_bouncing_count (see minimum_bouncing_count).
        * The bouncing period is shorter than minimum_bouncing_period
          (see minimum_bouncing_period).

My reading of that is that we should have the parameters set in a manner
that reflects the frequency of the list with the least amount of
traffic. Otherwise, we may never hit the number of bounces within a time
period for the score to be evaluated. Does that sound correct?

Dallas

On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, David Verdin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Actually, the list traffic is taken into account when computing bounces. see 
> : https://www.sympa.org/manual/bounces
> All the parameters you can use to handle bounces are defined on this page.
> Some parameters, such as the messages count,  are not set in the config but 
> calculated along the existence of the mailing list.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dallas Wisehaupt a écrit :
> >  Is it possible to have list specific bounce thresholds? We have some
> >  lists that see multiple messages a week, and others that only see a
> >  message every week or two.
> >
> >  We could stretch the global minimum_bouncing_period out for a month plus
> >  and reduce the minimum_bouncing_count, but I was just wondering if there
> >  was some other way to handle this.
> >
> >  Thanks,
> >
> >  Dallas

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Dallas Wisehaupt                            Senior Systems Administrator
address@concealed               The University of Scranton