On Sat, Aug 3, 2024 at 01:17 PM, Lulu wrote:
Groups.io posted a general announcement that they were purging names, and tagged these names for the groups' owners to take action to stop this, if appropriate.? I think it was up to the member to re-apply in such cases.? This was 2-3 months ago.
If that's what I think it is, it applied only to members with highly unusual email address domains (the part after the '@').? There was nothing group owners were supposed to do, or even could do, about it.? They could not stop it.? It was up to each individual member to verify that they still exist.? They were not dropped and asked to re-apply; they just needed to verify that they exist.
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As far as I know, none of those addresses have yet been purged.
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The purpose was to weed out inactive email addresses that did not have a human on the other end.? (Some of those "inactive" email addresses were being used by others for inappropriate purposes.)
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