On Thu, 4 Jun 1992 15:22:00 EST I said:
>
>I suppose every List Owner would like to reduce the numbers of
>seemingly unneeded Notices. Today I found 90 new messages waiting for
>me, of which 75 were in this category. With very few exceptions, the
>notices concerned messages sent days ago to List subscribers whom,
>more recently, I had changed to NOMAIL.  Here is an extract from one
>of the messages:
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>
>Your message could not be delivered to:
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>Your message has been enqueued and undeliverable for 6 days.
>The mail system will continue to try to deliver your message
>for an additional 6 days.
 
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Two persons were kind enough to comment. Both indicated that about the
only remedy was to persuade the notice-generating postmaster to do one
or both of the following: (1) hold the nondelivered mail for a shorter
time; (2) omit sending notices on intermediate days.
 
In response to these suggestions I transmitted them deferentially and
politely to postmasters at three offending nodes. One postmaster
replied that the flood of notices from his site was caused by a
technical error, now corrected. There was no response from the other
two sites and the messages ran their course as promised.
 
I am left with the impression that this failure is, essentially, an
unchangeable feature, or bug, in the system.
 
-Rafe-
 
R.R. Ronkin, VITA Volunteer
Volunteers in Technical Assistance
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