Re: [epub] Anyone been receiving Listbot email probes?

["Bruce McCullough" <buruse@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: "Bruce McCullough" <buruse@hotmail.com>

Hi Eva,
Topica just finished making some really nice
changes in the way they do things.  Maybe
another look at them would be in order.
Just a thought...

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>From: Eva Almeida <admin@ebooksnbytes.com>
>Reply-To: epub@onelist.com
>To: epub@onelist.com
>Subject: Re: [epub] Anyone been receiving Listbot email probes?
>Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 21:45:43 -0800
>
>
>Hi Mike, Penny, and Nathan
>
>Thanks for responding to my question:
>
> >> Have any of you been receiving email "probes" from Listbot?
>
>Mike wrote:
> >Happened to me last week too. I have had one or two unsubs a month for my
> >weekly ezine and last week there were over twenty! I'm going to import 
>the
> >list of unsubs again and see if Listbot will accept them. The Lisbot
> >message said specifically that these were due to bounces. I thought it
> >detected the bounces when the messages were sent. It seems they are 
>getting
> >over-efficient lately. doesn't this mean that if the mail server at my 
>ISP
> >is down during the microsecond that the probe is sent that I'll be 
>unsubbed
> >from LinkExchange Digest?   (ListBot and LED are both owned by MSN) I 
>doubt
> >they would do that to themselves. I hope they don't conttinue to do it to
> >my subscribers!
>
>Hah!  I knew that it what was wrong!  Ever since I started publishing my
>ezine there have been very few unsubscribes.  I became suspicious when
>I received 10+ for a few days in a row.  No, I wasn't pleased!  I didn't
>realize
>that I could import them again (yes, I have Listbot Gold.)  I will try that
>and see if it works.
>
>Thanks Penny for letting me know that you have been receiving these
>probes as well.
>
>Nathan wrote:
> >Eva the email probe maybe what is happening.  I have noticed that when I
> >subscribe
> >to certain lists, listbot will say my mail is bouncing sometimes and it
> >really is not.
> >I have no problems with Topica.  Maybe you should move them to that list
> >provider.
>
>I appreciate your suggestion but for some reason, I prefer the Listbot
>admin over Topica's.  I had to keep clicking to too many screens to
>check all my data with Topica.  With Listbot, all the admin functions
>are on one screen, so it is easy to find the functions that I wanted
>to view or edit.  Don't get me wrong, Topica is a good listserver, but
>I have had no problems with Listbot until now.  Thanks for the input
>though!  That is what I like about this list ... I think it is one of the
>most helpful lists on epublishing!  There is always someone that
>has the answers and are willing to help out.
>
>Take care,
>
>Eva
>

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