Re: Is it possible to get Pegasus to ignore messages on the server?

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From: Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 18:33

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In article <MPG.199ca86338a996bb989852@News.individual.NET>
           newsjul03@ms3.org.uk "Michael Salem" writes:

> On a POP3 system you can't bounce messages back to sender. I don't think 
> this is a good idea anyway, as the bounce always goes to an innocent 
> whose name has been taken in vain anyway.

Not ALWAYS: there ARE occasions on which someone writes to a misspelt
username (or one that has moved on and hence is inactive).  For those
(adnittedly a minority) is IS helpful to bounce the misaddressed mail
rather than discarding it silently.

-- 
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                          bhk@dsl.co.uk
    "We can no longer stand apart from Europe if we would.  Yet we are
    untrained to mix with our neighbours, or even talk to them".
                                              George Macaulay Trevelyan, 1919

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From: bhk@dsl.co.uk (Brian {Hamilton Kelly})
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Subject: Re: Is it possible to get Pegasus to ignore messages on the server?
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