>Dear Listowners,
>
>        FWIW.  It seems that error messages, lately, seem to be getting a
>little
>"user friendly."  Are some of you seeing the same things that I am?  I get a
>kick out of some mailer daemons in how they communicate their problems back
>to me. Instead of "mailbox full," or "user unknown," etc..,  take a look at
>this one:
>
>"Hi. This is the qmail-send program at relay05.netaddress.usa.net.  I'm
>afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This
>is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
>
><[log in to unmask]>:
>207.205.100.50 does not like recipient.
>Remote host said: 550 <[log in to unmask]>... Account terminated
>Giving up."

That seems to be a standard qmail error.  I think that more and more sites
are switching to qmail for various reasons (speed, security, etc), which
would explain the greater instances of such user-friendly bounces.

While these error messages are better than many (and of course are
light-years ahead of the standard exchange and ccmail gateway bounces), I'd
still prefer something in a format LISTSERV could handle automatically.
(For me, the most user-friendly bounce message is the one I never have to
see.)

Grumpily,
jwgh