>On Sun, 29 May 1994 19:40:32 +0200 Anita Cohen-Williams said:
>>Here's another amazing side of returned mail; it's deja vu time! I am getting
>>undeliverable mail messages from someone I deleted from my list two days ago!
>>What is going on this time? Also, I am still getting those demon messages from
>>MAIL.LOC.GOV. about a server being served out. Can someone translate?
>
>   Again, why the hell bother?  LOTS of time mail is delayed for some
>reason or other.  Three days ago I got some mail sent from a BITNET list
>on April 16.  Why?  I don't know.  If it takes the snail mail two weeks
>to come from New York instead of three or four days, I may be mad, but
>why should I waste my time, or theirs, going down to the Post Office
>and saying WHERE and WHY did my mail get delayed?
 
Well, speaking as a postmaster - which will probably result in
assault, from this bunch of folks - I can say that those mes-
sages are *truly* nice to have around.  When my user comes in
breathing fire about missing mail, I can just explain that mes-
sage to them and slip off the hook nicely.  8)
 
I would suggest, however, that such "Mail delayed" messages are
probably best dispatched to postmaster@sendingsite...the post-
master can then inform the sending user if/when/as necessary.
 
--Wes