>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.
>
>  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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