On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 05:11 AM, David Riecks wrote:
...got the notification email on?Saturday, November 2 that the migration was completed.?
However, out of a list of 1374 members, I see in my "statistics" that "282 email addresses were not added because they were bouncing."
(I would have quoted other parts but don't want to "overquote".)
I suspect that your experience is not untypical; we had a similar experience when we migrated nearly 2 years ago. As well as accumulating "bouncers" we had quite a number who baled out shortly after the move and more than a few who "were removed for marking a message as spam". I suspect that you still have that joy to come, so if you get the chance please have a read
here. (From the GMF wiki)
Over time group members lose interest and perhaps put themselves on No Email, but never quite get around to leaving "just in case" and the migration to Groups.io serves as a trigger to finally step down. Some, unfortunately, pass away but their addresses remain listed and sooner or late start bouncing. Some change email addresses at some point and forget to implement that change in long - forgotten groups.
Although it can be tedious it may be worth checking each bouncing member's entries in the Activity Log; it would not surprise me in the least to hear that many of the bouncers / leavers have little or no activity, or at least no recent activity.
FWIW at the time of writing "my" group of 2215 members has 182 listed as bouncing; every now and then I have a purge and delete them completely, usually after checking the log as outlined above. The number will then slowly creep up again.
In short I don't think your experience is in any way unusual. IMHO there is no point in having an impressive number of members if a "significant" proportion of them are inactive or moribund... or no longer with us.
Chris
