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>VMSmail is not a RFC822 interface, unfortunately. The system manager must
>decide what should work at the expense of what. One of the options is to
>make delivery errors work at the expense of replies. Most people make
>replies work at the expense of the other options. Some lists don't run in
>"safe" mode, usually because they run at sites with an obsolete version
>of XMAILER, and have no option but to set the delivery error return
>address to the list name.
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> Eric
How does VMSmail relate to this? I'm on a VMS machine, but the list
isn't -- Brown runs VM like a 'real' listserv machine should. I have
no idea what GSU's machine is.
What I'm asking, I suppose, is why these postings become delivery
errors. Or perhaps *whether* they're errors. After all, they don't
say anything about an error; they just get readdressed. I'm never told
that there's anything incorrect about these messages. Also, this mail
to 'owner-' comes straight from the user himself, rather than from some
SMTPLST address or a POSTMAN.
The user is experienced enough to know that replies to other lists
seem to reach their intended targets.
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