On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:59:43 CST, Chris Barnes <[log in to unmask]> said: > > A certain large aerospace firm has subscribers on the SAS-L list, and > > I would (as postmaster) get bounced mail from their corporate mail hub, > > notifying me that 'such and such' a message had been bounced as spam. > > Why would it go to the postmaster, unless the offending address was invalid? > Seems you would want the auto-message to go to the poster. *GAAK*. No. I get *enough* total cow-manure bounces from broken mailers that bounce back to the RFC822 From: address instead of the RFC821 return-path. Person posts to sas-l, listserv sends it out with a return-path of [log in to unmask] Site bounces it, it goes back to owner-sas-l, which gets directed to Listserv. Listserv fails to parse the bounce message, and hands it off to the actual list owner (me). Working as designed, more or less. I probably got unclear when I mentioned it going to me as postmaster - it's actually 'going to me as list owner', courtesy of local policy that leaves the postmaster (me) the owner for a lot of lists that would otherwise be ownerless.. /Valdis