Re: [epub] Bounces

["Ray Whiting" <rwhiting@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: "Ray Whiting" <rwhiting@bellsouth.net>

I also use Onelist for sending out Two Scoops (2s-Daily@onelist.com and
2S-KickNic@onelist.com
(for stop smoking) and I semi-regularly check for bounces.  At first I used
to just delete them, but after comments in here (that perhaps people are on
vacation, or maybe their mail or server is blocked or backed up) I tried
reinstating them.   I decided if I see repeat "bounces" on the same address,
THEN I will delete them, but that hasn't happened ... yet!

As for  your supposition -- you are probably more right than you know! Lots
of people change emails the way some of us change our underwear.    They
either don't care, or don't remember.

Ray Whiting
ray@twoscoops.com
http://www.twoscoops.com

----- Original Message -----
From: Debbie Adams <hansful4@earthlink.net>
To: <epub@onelist.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2000 6:44 AM
Subject: [epub] Bounces


> From: "Debbie Adams" <hansful4@earthlink.net>
>
> Supposition: is this just a glut of surfers saying screwit and
> letting
> their mailboxes fill up or letting their internet access lapse?
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`
>
> I use ONElist so I'm talking about bounces from their end.  Every
> Monday I go through the bounced subscribers for Homefires Hearth and
> send them a letter telling them their acccount has bounced and
> asking if they want to be reinstated.  Out of 25 or so I send each
> week (we have over 3000 subs now), 90% come back as mailbox full or
> unknown user.  If I'm lucky, maybe one person will write back and
> ask to be reinstated.
>
> I really think it has to do with the availability of freebie email
> addys now.  Also, people switch ISPs frequently and often use
> several to access their account.  I recently signed up with a
> freebie ISP only to hate it and so I deleted it from my system
> quickly.  But there is still an email addy floating around that I
> never used and will never see again.  I never signed up under it,
> but lots of people do sign up under free email addys and then either
> simply forget about them or check them long after the mailboxes are
> overflowing.
>
> Debbie Adams
> Homefires Hearth, the weekly ezine for Christian homemakers.  To
> subscribe,  go to http://www.homefireshearth.com or send an e-mail
> to Homefires_Hearth-subscribe@onelist.com
>
>
>

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