Hi Charlie, Thanks for the response. The line (Only addresses below this line can be automatically removed) is still there. Yes, of course I've been "mucking about" in my dist file... if I hadn't, no one would have gotten unsubscribed for the last two months! LOL My dist file is beautiful. No <CR>s that I can see, no empty lines.... of course, I know nothing of this Unix editor of which you speak... (Stop wincing, your face will stay that way!) I really am in desperate need of help. My dist file looks no different than it has for the last two months. My newsletters have gone out faithfully, though nothing else has worked. I'm about ready to give up and find a list host... they're all just so expensive and I like to do these things myself. Trouble is, though I know HTML well, I'm new to this list management thing, and know nothing about Unix. Is there a text editor I can download? I'm really trying to get the hang of this. I apologize greatly for my ignorance. Being blonde is only half of it. <grin> I saved the old rc.init file. I guess I'll go see if I can get it to work with that. But what of this marvel, this wonder, this "Unix editor" of which you speak? Any past and future help is appreciated!!!! :) Autumn ----- Original Message ----- From: Charlie Summers <charlie@lofcom.com> To: B & A <prjctlnk@pacinfo.com>; <Smartlist@Lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 8:36 PM Subject: Re:Yahoo's bounce messages AGAIN rc.init file. etc.
At 9:17 PM -0500 12/5/01, B & A is rumored to have typed:
When I search the dist file, they're RIGHT THERE every time. Who's dumb here... me or smartlist? <grin>
(*sigh*) NEVER give me an opening like that again...I promise I won't be able to resist myself... ;)
But to be serious, check your dist file _carefully,_ preferably with a un*x editor instead of transfering the file to another OS. There could be a bunch of reasons for some of the symptoms you describe, so check the dist file for anything odd; blank lines anywhere within it, <CR><LF> pairs instead of straight <LF>s, make sure the "(Only addresses below this line can be automatically removed)" line is STILL THERE (removing it is guaranteed to make SmartList decide not to auto-unsubscribe anyone) and generally research the heck out of the dist file. You specifically said:
Incidentally, ALL of the bounces are arriving in my moderators box and none of them are being removed after ANY number of bounces... I'm having to do it all by hand.
...which tells me you've been mucking around manually with your dist file, but you didn't say _how_ you've beem mucking with it, and tranmsfering to a Windoze box and back bunches of times is the fastest way I know of to get stray <CR>s in there. (Un*x uses <LF>, Macs use <CR>, and DOS/Win uses <LF><CR> for line terminators; go figure, they can't even agree on something as simple as this. So <CR>s in a un*x box's text file is a bad thing.)
I'm willing to bet a coffee (quad cap, light on the milk) that your dist file is screwed up somehow, in one of the ways mentioned above or some other new and original way I haven't seen yet...and the most common way for it to _get_ screwed it up is the maintainer playing around with it by hand, instead of letting SmartList handle it exclusively, unless s/he knows _exactly_ what s/he's doing.
Charlie