Bouncing membership issues

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Dear Bhagavatas:

You might have noticed in the recent past a sudden depletion of

membership of our group.

 

 

Though we do not seek any " comfort in numbers " , the membership rose

to over 5100 Today, the active membership has come down to around

4300.

 

This is because of removal by Administration of members

whose mails " bounced " frequently.

 

 

 

We ourselves wanted to effect such removals of inactive members

because 5000+ membership was becoming progressively unmanageable.

 

We took up the matter with Administrators who have

informed as follows:

 

 

 

" We are in the process of cleaning up long time bouncing members and

within the first phase of this clean up we are removing just email-

only group members whose email addresses have been bouncing for more

than a year.

 

In the next phase of the clean up we will turn our attention on

web-access members whose emails have been bouncing for more than a

year. If you have members that fit this description encourage them

to update their membership with a valid email address "

 

 

We hereby request members who have opted for Web access to review

the currency of their membership and immediately update with valid

email address to avoid being removed from our membership.

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A closer look at the " Bouncing History " revealed the following:

 

1. Some Internet Service Providers (ISPs) offer only very limited

storage facility. (e.g.) MSN Hotmail gives only 2MBs free. If and

when the size reaches this limit, the account is automatically

disabled and further delivery of mails stopped. The Hotmail janitor

deletes all messages beyond this limit and they cannot be recovered.

2. The same is the case of members acquiring extra storage on

payment of

hefty charges. These accounts are similarly disabled and made

defunct if and when the size reaches the limit of extra storage

acquired.

3. Further, in the case of 1 above, members are required to sign in

at least once in 30 days to keep their accounts active. Otherwise,

the accounts are deactivated and mails sent to them " bounce " .

Members are requested to access the Group page at least once a

month, if not more than once.

 

There are two main reasons why Storage capacity is exceeded:

(a) " Attachments " " Attachments " usually occupy enormous space to

the detriment of other mails.

Contributors are requested to avoid " attachments " which sometimes

conceal in them malicious viruses.

(b) " Copycat versions "

" Copycat versions " of the same material received repeatedly, " ad

nauseam " from multiple groups necessitate deletions that naturally

take time and effort. As a matter of policy, " Sri Ranga Sri "

discourages such postings from contributors.

4. Another major factor is that when members drop / cancel their

email addresses registered with " Sri Ranga Sri " and subsequently

change over to new ones sometimes they do not inform us. In such

cases, it is requested that they duly intimate the fact to " Sri

Ranga Sri " . Otherwise, " Bounce History " reports messages such

as " Invalid recipient " , " User Unknown " , " User inactive " , " Disabled

or disconnected " , " Mailbox not available " etc.

5. In some cases, Administration reports " Unable to

relay " or " Relaying denied at the receiving end " . When members feel

that they are not receiving the usual postings, they may check up

with their ISPs to arrange for restoration of delivery.

6. Some domain names are " blacklisted " by Administration

(for whatever reason) and mails are not delivered to these domains.

The email addresses of members who had registered under these domain

names appear in the " Bouncing History " . Members who feel that they

are not receiving the usual postings may check up with their " Domain

Administrators " to fix the problem.

 

Any comments / remarks / suggestions may be addressed in personal

mail to -Ramanbil and Srivaishnavan

 

 

PLEASE DO NOT ADDRESS " SRI RANGA SRI " JOURNAL.

 

Thanks for your patience and cooperation.

Dasoham

Anbil Ramaswamy

Madhava Kannan

Moderator & Co-moderator

" Sri Ranga Sri "