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>Various complaints about arpanet messages sent to usenet people because
>some arpanet machine couldn't contact another to forward a mailing list. 

(Put on your asbestos suit.  Here it comes.)

This is happening to me too.  I once had this happen on net.micro.amiga to
the point where I was getting 8 junk mail messages a day.  This happened for
two weeks (until the involved computers decided to give up).  Frankly, this
pisses me off.  This is not the way the software should behave.  I would
think that arpa sites would be more responsible than that.  This is not
something that needs to be handled on an individual basis.  The software
needs to be changed to do more intelligent things when a mailing list can't
go to a particular machine.  The obviously correct thing to do would be to
mail notices to the person responsible for the forwarding instead of sending
personal mail to the poster of the message.  Gatewaying articles into
arpanet is a Nice Thing, but this brain-damaged behavior is costing Usenet
people a lot of money.  They have to pay real phone bills!

I am quite seriously thinking of writing a program to pull such messages out
of my mailbox and mail them back to the offending machine.  I think maybe if
something like that got posted and people started using it then the people
responsible would take action to correct it.  I wonder how much money has
been wasted because of these messages?  Think about my case.  Eight messages
a day containing the entire source of my postings repeated for two weeks.
That's 112 junk mails.  You want to pay for it?  I don't.

(You can remove the asbestos suit now.)

Sean

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