Heya, I just installed the new, "scoring enabled" bounce handler - let me know if anyone sees any weirdness from it (ie: random unsubscribes, etc) Also: From: Andreas Grau > This whole strategy is based on punishment: Each time you don't accept > my message, I will remember. And one day, enough is enough, and I > have a long memory, I will kick you. This is an interesting way of looking at things. I didn't think of the actions being against the actual email address, rather whatever syst ...Continue Reading

On 5 Jun 2006 07:12:36 -0000 Andreas Grau wrote: > Some sort of a 'tit for tat' strategy would be more fitting, imho. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_Tat > But then, I have no idea if the problem really is big enough to > justinfy (sic!) the efforts. For your next trip to the bar, to impress people, a nice read on tit for tat and other strategies here : http://www.abc.net.au/science/slab/tittat/story.htm ...Continue Reading

On 5 Jun 2006 04:12:38 -0000 "Dada Mail \(Justin Simoni\)" wrote: > Fine and dandy. This whole idea works once you have a threshold you > have to hit. For example, if a email address reaches a threshold of, > "10", the email address is now unsubscribed from the mailing list. > This basically gives the email address and the email addresses' > server's bouncing mechanism - and your mailing list, a little bit > more forgiveness. And it's what everyone else seems to be doin ...Continue Reading

I was playing around with the bounce handler today (yeah, Sunday), since there's sort of a limitation on what it can do - Currently, the bounce handler knows about "hard" bounces and, "soft" bounces. A hard bounce is usually defined (erm, by me) as a bounced message because the email address itself does not exist. A soft bounce is basically any other type of bounce. Examples: the email box is full, the message couldn't be sent to the address because x, y or z, etc. Currently, in the bou ...Continue Reading

Dada Mail 2.10.9 alpha 2 is out the door. Here are the links to the download: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mojomail/dada-2_10_9_alpha2.tar.gz?download http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mojomail/dada-2_10_9_alpha2.zip?download Please refer to the 2.10.9 alpha 1 changelog while digesting the changelog for this release: http://mojo.skazat.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/archive/dadadev/20060516235502/ Changelog for: 2.10.9 alpha2 New Features * White List! What is the White List? * A white list i ...Continue Reading

Oh this is cool - I was playing around with the aforementioned Mail::Thread CPAN module available that takes, basically, a computer genius's algorithm, ported to Perl and makes it available to people like me :) and see if I can hook it into Dada Mail. Took about 3 minutes. Here's my hacked script - it only looks at the last 25 entries: [snip] #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use lib qw( /home/justin/perllib ./ ./DADA ./DADA/perllib ); use CGI::Carp "fatalsToBrowser"; use CGI qw(:standard); u ...Continue Reading

On May 31, 2006, at 5:45 PM, David Lauder wrote: > One advantage that I anticipate with Dada Mail is that messages are > addressed to the recipient in person, which should prevent Hotmail, > etc. treating them as junk. If you change the headers so that the > "To:" > address becomes the list name, then I think it would be useful to > provide an option to keep the existing headers where the "To:" > address is the recipient's name. Not to worry - you'll have the option to go e ...Continue Reading

"David Lauder" > Justin, > > I am in the process of replacing a Yahoo Group e-mail list with a Dada > mail discussion list (not live yet). > > One of the problems we have had with Yahoo is that the "To:" address > is listname@PROTECTED As it is not addressed to the recipient > in person Hotmail (and others) put the message into a 'junk mail' or > 'bulk mail' folder by default, where it is deleted after 5 days or so. To > avoid this, the recipient has to find th ...Continue Reading

On 28 May 2006 at 23:01, Dada Mail (Justin Simoni) wrote: > > Heya, > > Many people have mentioned > > http://mojo.skazat.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1145638823 > > that the style of Dada Mail discussion lists are slightly different > than other Mailing List Managers. Right now, I want to focus on one > issue: > > It seems that in other programs, messages sent to the list have the, > "To:" header filled into what Dada Mail refers to as the, "List &g ...Continue Reading

>I'll see what's up with that - you're referring to threading not working in your mail reader, correct? Yes, basically in dada lists all the replies end up in a seperate thread from the original post, while in other mailinglists the replies all end up in the same thread as the original post. Like I said, nothing major, but more of a loose end.... Alfred ...Continue Reading