On Aug 4, 12:07, Eric Thomas wrote: } Subject: Re: SCIFAQ errors } On Tue, 3 Aug 1993 19:10:39 -0400 Chris Lewis } <[log in to unmask]> said: } >But what's the sense of sending the 200 copies to the originator } >instead? They're unlikely to have been the originator's fault either. } Ok, so what should LISTSERV do? Send 200 copies to the entire list? Send } 200 copies to the list owner, who isn't responsible about the incident } either? Quietly throw the message away, with the result that you'd never } have known your FAQ wasn't being posted? There is not perfect solution, I } just thought it would be better to send 200 copies to a single person } than to the whole list. How about throwing the article away and writing an error log message that the list-owner can look at? Is this a tremendously difficult thing? I don't think so. } >Frankly, I think the duplicate acknowledge is rather silly anyways. If } >the message got through the first time, there's no particular need to } >tell the originator about the subsequent duplicates. Just drop the durn } >thing. } And you'd never have known your FAQ wasn't posted. But my FAQ *was* posted. Successfully. Someone else beyond my control and without my knowledge has chosen to route it to a LISTSERV which has different rules. I did not send it to the LISTSERV. If the LISTSERV has a problem with it, it's not my concern. If the LISTSERV has a transmission problem with it, it's the list owner who should find out. } Anyway, as long as you insist on applying usenet logic to mailing lists } we aren't getting anywhere. No, I'm applying usenet logic to usenet. Articles posted to usenet should never bounce. I don't care what a gateway is gating to, transmission problems outside of usenet are the gatewayer's problem. } Duplicates are normal in usenet - normal, and often desired for } redundancy. On a mailing list, duplicates are an anomaly and often one of } the visible symptoms of a serious configuration problem. But we're not talking about mailing lists here, we're talking about a broken usenet gateway. -- Chris Lewis; [log in to unmask]; Phone: Canada 613 832-0541 Psroff 3.0 info: [log in to unmask] Ferret list: [log in to unmask]