At 10:26 12/8/2005 Thursday, Nelson R. Pardee wrote:
>I seem to recall something about Ack's real (as opposed to theoretical)
>usefulness, but I can't remember where I saw it. I've searched the
>archives to no avail. Can anyone enlighten me?

Since it contains a count of mail-mode recipients and probably is distributed to the poster outside of the LISTSERV distribute backbone, theoretically it could provide a diagnostic point if those who get their distributions via the backbone ...don't.

/Pete Weiss