At 11:30 AM 1/18/96 EST, Eric Thomas wrote:
>On Thu, 18 Jan 1996 08:02:47 -0800 "Kevin J. Sinclair" <[log in to unmask]>
>said:
>
>>Second,  is from  Eric himself,  in reply  to Kathleen.  Eric says  that
>>listserv both  "summarizes" and "forwards"  the errors; but I  don't see
>>any "summary". Just forwarding.
>
>You may want to  check your mailbox more carefully. Every  day, you get a
>report on the bounces that LISTSERV *did* understand. What it forwards is
>what it  DOES NOT  UNDERSTAND (emphasis mine).  If it  doesn't understand
>what a message  says and what the bouncing address  is, it can't possibly
>summarize it.
>
>  Eric
>
 
Eric:
No need to get the hackles up. Yes, it appears Kevin missed the error
report. However, his Owner Digest looks like a really good idea. I delete
over 100 messages a day: >LAWSCH-L: error report from AMERICAN.EDU< Check
the email address (it's probably one I've seen before) and delete. Automatic
killfiling doesn't help, since I still have to download them all.
Recently, I had two brushes with mailers that had the retry set for two
weeks (!). Two weeks worth of repeats for a moderate volume list times two.
An owner digest would have meant that the digest I download anyway would
have been just a little longer.
 
Again, if you're keeping track, I emphatically vote FOR  this type of
capability in a future release of LISTSERV.
 
Philo
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