Customers email list just bounced 457 emails... now I get to delete by hand

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12/17/2008 11:30:44 AM

REAL MONSTERS!

12/17/2008 11:32:02 AM

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA you don't have a secretary

12/17/2008 11:32:04 AM

they said they were all confirmed... then over 1/3 get bounced. Sup with this junk...

12/17/2008 11:38:03 AM

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"REAL MONSTERS!"

OMG! I LOVE THAT SHOW!!

12/17/2008 11:44:36 AM

So what kind of crappy email client are you using where you just can't hold shift down and select them all at once?

12/17/2008 11:47:33 AM

it's not a client. It's an emailing system written in PERL and PHP. We use it to keep the server load down to around 400 emails/hour. Currently the list has ~2500 email addresses, and last night 457 were bounced. Since it's the first mailing from said list we always go through and remove all the bounced emails for the customer and report back all their broken emails for them to contact people and get it fixed.

It also prevents frantic calls at 3AM when they log in to check their mailings progress and see 400 bounced emails and think something is wrong with our system...

And really, who wants to delete 400+ emails 1-2 times per day?

12/17/2008 12:04:25 PM

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"REAL MONSTERS!"

OMG Dammit100 does that to people in real life!

12/17/2008 12:06:05 PM

jackleg's college email directory harvester is on sale for 49.99 through christmas

12/17/2008 12:08:05 PM

^haha, I used to wonder about NCSU... When you logged into solaris machines you could just up directory a few times and see the entire list of NCSU users - ~40K confirmed, working, email addys. Should have done it

12/17/2008 12:14:09 PM