On Sun, 29 May 1994 19:40:32 +0200 Anita Cohen-Williams said:
>Here's another amazing side of returned mail; it's deja vu time! I am getting
>undeliverable mail messages from someone I deleted from my list two days ago!
>What is going on this time? Also, I am still getting those demon messages from
>MAIL.LOC.GOV. about a server being served out. Can someone translate?
 
   Again, why the hell bother?  LOTS of time mail is delayed for some
reason or other.  Three days ago I got some mail sent from a BITNET list
on April 16.  Why?  I don't know.  If it takes the snail mail two weeks
to come from New York instead of three or four days, I may be mad, but
why should I waste my time, or theirs, going down to the Post Office
and saying WHERE and WHY did my mail get delayed?  Maybe the mail was
delayed, maybe they have an infinite loop of their own.  Not my problem,
except to zap all the stuff from them.  If you really want to get mad,
get some users from a certain site in UK that delivers to a lot of
apparently dialup (slip/ppp) users who drop off the edge of the world,
so the daemon sends you notices that they didn't get mail in three days
(at which point I zap them) and then keep sending them every few days
until they finally quit after THIRTY-TWO DAYS!  Talk about ridiculous.
But, I know that I'd do better trying to win the Boston Marathon at
my weight and age and lack of training than I would to convince some
stupid UK mail maintainer to fix his  badly hosed system.
 
   cyclops
 
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