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2 total messages Started by David Roode Tue, 08 May 1984 06:04

#53

Author: David Roode
Date: Tue, 08 May 1984 06:04

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If a mailsystem existed which treated mail to mailing lists (exploders)
this way

	If mail is to mailing list then check for definition of
	delivery error mailbox corresponding to that mailing list
	and if found use it in the return path else use normal
	return path

then a site could choose the type of treatment it desired for
a particular mailing list by selecting whether or not to define
the delivery error mailbox corresponding to that mailing list.
For example, if the mail is sent to INFO-PASCAL, the site
handling the exploding of INFO-PASCAL could control how
the mailsystem prepared Return Paths for INFO-PASCAL
by defining or not defining INFO-PASCAL-ERRORS appropriately.

In no way need such a feature in a mailsystem FORCE a user
of that mailsystem to divert delivery errors to a handler at
that site rather than returning them to the submittor of the
message.
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Re: redistribution lists

#62

Author: Laura Creighton
Date: Sun, 20 May 1984 23:01

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As long as people are thinking about *whom* to mail *what* to:

Every so often I post something to unix-wizards. Every so often
things do not go well. The last time I posted to unix-wizards,
some site (I think it was BRL, but I could be wrong) which
appears to be a critical path for many people was down. Very down.

I received more than 300 messages saying that the mail was undeliverable.
There would have been many fewer messages if it wasn't deemed fit to
tell me that``Messaged failed after x days, trying for y more days '' 
or some such.

It conceivably would have been useful to tell me ``problem
suspected at BRL (if indeed that was the site)'', ONCE, but sending me
the text of my message did not help much. I shudder to think of
what would have happened if I had posted 4 or 5 articles to
unix-wizards that week. 


I was the wrong person to send this stuff to. There wasn't a thing I
could do, so I threw it all away. I also throw away messages that I
receive which inform me that somebody who used to be on the mailing
list no longer has an account. Something tells me
somebody else would be a better person to inform.

Laura Creighton
decvax!utzoo!laura@berkeley
-- 
Laura Creighton
utzoo!laura

	"Not to perpetrate cowardice against one's own acts!
	 Not to leave them in the lurch afterward! The bite
	 of conscience is indecent"	-- Nietzsche
					The Twilight of the Idols (maxim 10)

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