At 16:23 05/13/96 -0500, you wrote:
>On Mon, 13 May 1996, Phil Schwarz wrote:
>
>>
>> How about a feature that would instruct Listserv to simply swallow bounces
>> containing a certain string, such as "transient failure", or containing the
>> address of a particularly verbose mail server that complains a lot about
>> transient delivery outages with do-nothing messages?
>
>Well, you know some braindead mail systems consider *everything* a transient
>failure.  It may stretch to days, or weeks, or...  But, hey, it eventually
>gets fixed (maybe) so it's transient, right?
>
>If listserv "swallowed" them all and the subscriber asked "why am I not
>getting my mail" all the listowner could say would be "I dunno, I haven't
>seen any error messages for your subscription."
>
>Douglas
>       Douglas Winship   Hays County, Texas  [log in to unmask]
>                    Secondary AUTOCAT Listowner
>                              MEDLAB-L
>
 
How about a feature that lopped the message off the end of an error header?
 
Philo
 
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