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Article #3270Re: Email trivia
From: lumensa
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 04:17
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 04:17
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In article <scs.724014455@hela.iti.org>, scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons) writes: > The last couple of months a bounce has come back from Compuserve for > one of the SEMiSLUG addresses: > > From: Electronic Postmaster <POSTMASTER@CompuServe.COM> > To: <scs@wotan.iti.org> > Subject: Undeliverable message > > Re: ? EMDRPD - Mail Delivery Failure. Refused -- Postage Due. > XXXXX,XXXX was the Compuserve account. Seems like a pretty reasonable > way of dealing with folks who don't pay their bills -- return the mail > to sender. I approve. It's not quite that simple. Compu$erve terminates the account users who don't pay. Compu$erve charges EXTRA to deliver any mail from their Internet gateway, and a Compu$erve user has the option to refuse to accept any messages for which they would have to pay the surcharge in addition to the usual connect time fees, etc. This is the reason for the "postage due" notice. Not that the user hasn't paid his bill.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!gatech!udel!wupost!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!newsfeed.rice.edu!lub001.lamar.edu!lumensa From: lumensa@lub001.lamar.edu Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Email trivia Message-ID: <1992Dec22.211759.1891@lub001.lamar.edu> Date: 22 Dec 92 21:17:59 +1700 References: <scs.724014455@hela.iti.org> Organization: Lamar University - Beaumont Lines: 21