🚀 go-pugleaf

bruce@blilly.UUCP (Bruce Lilly) writes:
|Lack of a bounce message tells me nothing useful:
|	the message might have been delivered successfully to the
|		intended destination
|	the message might have been misdirected, and possibly
|		delivered somewhere other than the intended
|		destination
|	the message may have fallen into a bottomless pit at a
|		store-and-forward site
|	delivery may have failed somewhere with a bounce message,
|		but the bounce message may have been misdirected
|		or lost or both
|	several possible combinations of the above
|	the message may be waiting at a store-and-forward site

  This assumes store-and forward, something which is getting
less and less poplular at time passes, and was never part of
the RFC world anyway. Indeed, even my local uucp net is 
quickly turning into an ip/slip net...
  If a store-and-forward system like uucp is used, the reliability
is surprizingly high (a few messages a year go missing when someone
blows a disk).  It's some other *@$#%!*!^#5 systems that poste the problems
and make return receipts necessary.

  Please note that most commercial PC mailrs provide themm.  There's
a reason for that (:-()

--dave
  
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