I got seven  copies. All seven had invalid RFC822  headers, with multiple
'To:'  fields, and  addresses such  as 'blah-list:;@chalmers.se'  (I have
nothing to do  with chalmers.se which is in another  country, and I don't
believe  anyone  there owns  any  list).  The  'Date:' fields  were  also
invalid. After  the 6th copy  I flamed back and  asked them to  stop this
garbage, and it  did after another copy, although this  could have been a
coincidence. I drew two conclusions from this mass mailing:
 
1. The people who sent this message  seem to think this address change is
   MY problem, and  not THEIR problem. In addition, they  are either very
   impolite  or incompetent,  otherwise I  would have  received only  one
   copy.
 
2. Judging  from the headers of  the messages this gateway  generates, it
   seems that the  reason they insist that WE should  make the change for
   them is, simply,  that they cannot do it themselves  since the headers
   generated by their gateway are invalid and sometimes non-repliable.
 
Point 2  is particularly irritating.  It is  a serious problem,  and most
definitely THEIR  problem. I,  too, am  seriously considering  the simple
deletion of all  German X.400 addresses in the users'  own interest: they
will  have to  subscribe  again, which  will not  be  possible until  the
gateway generates  valid headers.  This will put  enough pressure  on the
gateway operators to fix  it. If on the other hand I  make the change for
them, users will think the gateway works and complain to me that LISTSERV
does  not accept  their mail  any longer,  what did  I do  to cause  this
problem?
 
  Eric