At 19:06 03/24/2002 Sunday, Michael Shannon wrote:
>I've just seen a bunch of errors come through our busiest list that were the
>form of rejected postings. The reason given for rejection was exceeding the
>maximum message size of 300 lines (which I've explixitly set in the header).
>I'm happy to see that LISTSERV is capturing large posts but the problem here
>is that it captured its own digests. All the errors were generated by
>plaintext digests.
Don't be so sure that it is capturing its own. Instead, I willing to bet
you that some errant subscriber's email system aka MTA "bounced" it back
to the list, and LISTSERV thought that it was a new
posting. Unfortunately the subscriber's MTA made it appear as if it the
MTA was the LISTSERV.
/Pete