BounceBot is a free service that automatically processes LetterRip bounce digests and lets you know what email addresses to unsubscribe. It takes 99% of the pain out of managing LetterRip mailing lists.

Fill in this form to create your account and start processing bounces. Please read the terms and conditions lower on this page before doing so. Account Name: Password: Your Email Address: Quite a few people make mistakes when entering their email address. Please check to make sure you haven't mistyped it. And please don't enter an email address that automatically sends a reply when it receives an email! Account Name: Password: (Or use the form above to create an account)

Here's how it works. You create a BounceBot account and configure it however you want. You get to set a bunch of parameters that determine how agressive BounceBot is about deciding an email address should be purged from your lists. Then you arrange for your bounce digests to be sent to bouncebot@selfpromotion.com (I do it by having my own email address as the list admin address, and using a Eudora filter to forward the bounces to BounceBot). Then every so often, BounceBot will send you an email with some unsubscribe suggestions; you then either unsubscribe them by hand or (much easier) cut and paste them into an email you send to your LetterRip admin email address. I could email your email admin directly but quite frankly I don't want to know your passwords!

What I do. I maintain the BounceBot robot, including all the templates that find email addresses in the bounce digests. Whenever BounceBot can't find an email address in a bounce digest segment, it lets me know so I can update the templates. Obviously, it's easier for one person to do this once than for everyone to do it for themselves, so there's a real economy of scale. And since BounceBot can be updated in a few minutes, you always have the latest version working for you.

What you do. Every 3 months or so you'll get an email reminding you about how much work I do to keep this running, and generally making you feel really guilty. Then you send me some money -- you choose how much -- to relieve those terrible feelings of guilt. Simple, eh? If you don't pay, you can still use the service, but the bad karma will pile up, and you'll live a short and unhappy life and probably come back as something really icky. Or so my wife says. I, on the other hand, will rack up huge karma points and come back as a higher life form -- perhaps even a woman. Or so my wife also says.