Re: Subscription probe for RESADM-L - please ignore Dana Smith 23 Apr 2012 09:01 EST

Please advise as to how to change the recipient's address of this membership.
Thanks
Dana Smith

Senior Account Executive

IT Works, Inc.

318 West Millbrook Rd., Ste 205

Raleigh, NC 27609

Ph:  (919) 232-5332 x 224

Fax:  (919) 232-5373

Email:  xxxxxx@itworks-inc.com

Web:  www.itworks-inc.com

"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark."  Michelangelo

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From: LISTS.HEALTHRESEARCH.ORG LISTSERV Server (16.0) [mailto:xxxxxx@lists.healthresearch.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 6:00 AM
To: Dana Smith
Subject: Subscription probe for RESADM-L - please ignore

Tue, 3 Apr 2012 06:00:01

This message is a "probe" for your subscription to the RESADM-L list. You do not need to  take any action to remain subscribed to  the list, and in particular you should  not reply to this message. Simply  discard it now, or  read on  if  you would  like  to  know more  about  how this  probing mechanism works.

A  "probe"  is a  message  like  the one  you  are  reading, sent  to  an individual subscriber  and tagged  with a  special signature  to uniquely identify  this  particular  subscriber  (you can  probably  not  see  the signature because it is in the  mail headers). If the subscriber's e-mail address is no longer valid, the  message will be returned to LISTSERV and the faulty  address will be  removed from  the list. If  the subscriber's address is still valid, the message will not bounce and the user will not be deleted.

The main advantage  of this technique is that it  can be fully automated; the list owner does not need to read a single delivery error. For a large or active  list, the manpower  savings can  be tremendous. In  fact, some lists are  so large that it  is virtually impossible to  process delivery errors manually. Another advantage is that the special, unique signatures make it possible to accurately process delivery errors that are otherwise unintelligible, even to an experienced technical person.

The  drawback,  however,  is  that  this  method  lacks  flexibility  and forgiveness. Since the Internet does not provide a reliable mechanism for probing an  e-mail address without  actually delivering a message  to the human  recipient, the  subscribers  need to  be  inconvenienced with  yet another "junk message". And, unlike  a human list owner, LISTSERV follows a number of  simple rules in determining when and  whether to terminate a subscription. In  particular, a common  problem with automatic  probes is mail gateways  that return a delivery  error, but do deliver  the message anyway.  LISTSERV  has no  way  to  know that  the  message  was in  fact delivered, and in most cases the subscriber is not aware of the existence of these  "false" error reports.  If this  happens to you,  LISTSERV will send you  another message with a  copy of the delivery  error returned by your mail system, so that you can show it to your technical people.

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