Are there any verified methods of smtp transfer for use say amongst a limited group of organizations to supplement the situation that Mr.Weiss has pointed out. > -----Original Message----- > From: LISTSERV site administrators' forum > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Pete Weiss > Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 9:10 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: lost messages > > > At 13:49 05/10/2004 Monday, Hiler, John wrote: > >I spoke with a FOLUSA rep last week, who indicated that as > many as >threemessages were sent to FOLUSA-L list but never > made the distribution. >I checkedthe archives to find two of > them in the archives. Another >message, sent Monday, did > make the distribution, but not the archives. Is >there any > way to audit listserv to determine what messages it has > >received, distributed and archived? This problem has been > persistent >enough to warrant investigation of alternative > MLM tools for FOLUSA (and >maybe the INFOTRAC2000 list as well). > > As far as I can tell from reading a decade's worth of Daily > Error Monitor logs, email delivery is not 100% reliable. And > in the past year, it is growing more and more less reliable > due to spam and viruses. > > This is not a LISTSERV problem per se. > > /Pete >