I wish there were a way LISTSERV could avoid doing this, but since
there's not, I also wish the notification to the listowner could be
sent with an identifying subject line that would distinguish it
clearly from other errors; I filter error messages and often let
them accumulate in a folder because most of them require no action.

I suspect this has happened a number of times to my subscribers:

> My post disappeared without
> a trace, and all the others I sent went through.  It was very
> disorienting, but fortunately after I remembered something about this
> happening to someone else, I looked at the headers I had included and
> realized what had happened.  My listowner claimed she never even saw
> it.  She must not have noticed it in with all the other bounces.

Probably so: it certainly happens to me, and my lists are not very
big.

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