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From: Peter Jaspers-Fayer
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1992 21:39

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P U H L E E Z E:  As a sender to a list (or as an owner of a list) I do NOT
want to be bothered by nuicance mail generated because some poor student (who
only has 1K of disk space on a Vax) has joined my list.  In this case, I just
don't want to know about it.

Sadly, if I send personal mail to someone, it would be nice to know why it
 didn't
get there, but the 2 concepts don't co-exist very well.  It seems to be a rather
indeterminate AI problem to guess which mail came in via a list, and not send
"failed" (disk full | not picked up in time) messages to those.

This of course all stems from using a similar mechanism for both types of
 "mail".
Un*x types try to get around this by separating "news" and "mail", I guess.
--
 /PJ                                                  pjf@osiris.cs.uoguelph.ca
                                                             pjf@vm.uoguelph.ca
                                                             (519)824-4120x6309

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From:         Peter Jaspers-Fayer <pjf@OSIRIS.CS.UOGUELPH.CA>
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