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Fri, 27 Aug 2004 22:19:19 -0500
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On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Paul Russell wrote:
> It is possible that the message you received was not the result of a
> delivery error on a message from your list server. It is possible that
> the owner- address was harvested from someone's local mail archive by
> a mass-mailing virus. I have also seen spam sent to owner- addresses.

There are also a lot of people who think that owner-listname is the way
to contact the listowner, or the proper address for posting to the list.
It is, of course, neither.

By definition, anything sent to owner-listname is an error message.

Douglas Winship  [log in to unmask]

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