Tue, 14 May 1996 19:39:54 -0400
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At 16:23 05/13/96 -0500, you wrote:
>On Mon, 13 May 1996, Phil Schwarz wrote:
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>> How about a feature that would instruct Listserv to simply swallow bounces
>> containing a certain string, such as "transient failure", or containing the
>> address of a particularly verbose mail server that complains a lot about
>> transient delivery outages with do-nothing messages?
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>Well, you know some braindead mail systems consider *everything* a transient
>failure. It may stretch to days, or weeks, or... But, hey, it eventually
>gets fixed (maybe) so it's transient, right?
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>If listserv "swallowed" them all and the subscriber asked "why am I not
>getting my mail" all the listowner could say would be "I dunno, I haven't
>seen any error messages for your subscription."
>
>Douglas
> Douglas Winship Hays County, Texas [log in to unmask]
> Secondary AUTOCAT Listowner
> MEDLAB-L
>
How about a feature that lopped the message off the end of an error header?
Philo
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