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Article #2447Re: Which headers may Sendmail re-write?
From: Barry Margolin
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 1990 00:29
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 1990 00:29
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In article <1990Dec15.213806.26607@sceard.Sceard.COM> mrm@Sceard.COM (M.R.Murphy) writes:
>Note that this is then a negative feedback system. The bouncee will either get
>the hint, will find another transport path, will stop sending mail, will
>install a better mailer, or will just enter an honest profession.
What world do you live in? The user has little of no control over what his
mail system generates. All the bouncee will do is get frustrated. He may
complain to his system vendor, and the vendor *might* fix it in the
following release, and if he's lucky that will be as little as six months
later.
There's a good reason why people implement kludges.
--
Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.
barmar@think.com
{uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!barmar From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Which headers may Sendmail re-write? Message-ID: <1990Dec17.002953.19463@Think.COM> Date: 17 Dec 90 00:29:53 GMT References: <2766B2E7.276@tct.uucp> <KARL.90Dec13123956@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu> <1990Dec15.213806.26607@sceard.Sceard.COM> Sender: news@Think.COM Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA Lines: 17