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In article <6huqtb$hhm$1@samba.rahul.net>,
Steve Portigal  <stevep@rahul.net> wrote:
>amatu@unicorn.us.com utters:
>> In article <6ht1ee$80u$1@samba.rahul.net>,
>> I tried bouncing mail from elm to myself at another address, using elm's
>> bounce function.  What I got at the other end was not obviously a
>> bounce; there was no error message, just the same mail I sent.
>
>That's not the meaning of their "bounce" - it's equivalent to
>redirect in Eudora - it sends the message to a new address, as if the
>sender was not you, but the original sender. It's not an error bounce,
>it's a sneaky redirect type feature.

 Regardless, since the entire message is returned with the full headers
intact, it may resemble closely enough for the harvester to decide that it
is being bounced. Alternatively one can concoct a couple lines of Procmail
recipe to perfectly imitate any  delivery failure (error code 77 is a good
choice as I recall some NANA threads).
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