I consider it as a real bug. The bug is simply the default name for the
return path.
owner-<listname> is a very bad and misleading name for the return path.
It is natually misleading people to think that it is the address of the
list-owner. If they are lucky, the list owner will receive their messages
as error reports and will bother to identify them. If they are not, then
LISTSERV will try to identify the error types by itself,
and then will discard their messages without notification.

Uzi

> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 16:29:12 EDT
> From: Nathan Brindle <[log in to unmask]>
>
> On Thu, 15 Oct 1998 09:11:19 -0700 Randy Ryan said:
> >For the last 4-5 months, the address owner-<listname> address appears to be
> >broken for Maelstrom, running 1.8d listserv.  The mail doesn't bounce, but it
> >does disappear into a black hole and doesn't get delivered to the owner of the
> >list.
>
> If you have Auto-Delete running this is pretty much correct.
>
> >I thought perhaps owner-<listname> address was being phased out, but learned
> >recently than many bounce processors attempt to deliver to that address, which
> >I caught after a subscriber emailed me a wierd hop bounce.
>
> <As documented> the owner-listname address is for error handling.  If you
> want a generic address for people to contact the list owner you should be
> using listname-request .
>
> With Auto-Delete= Yes,Full-Auto, it would be trashed, which is also
> as documented.
>
> Nathan