Although I think that everyone is trying to be helpful, maybe we
should stop our discussion here. Everytime you post something I get
another copy or two of that header in my mailbox--so someone doesn't
want us to talk about mailer-daemon. Thanks for trying to help: I'm
glad to know that I am not alone with this one.--Paul.
 
> 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?  Maybe the mail was
> delayed, maybe they have an infinite loop of their own.  Not my problem,
> except to zap all the stuff from them.  If you really want to get mad,
> get some users from a certain site in UK that delivers to a lot of
> apparently dialup (slip/ppp) users who drop off the edge of the world,
> so the daemon sends you notices that they didn't get mail in three days
> (at which point I zap them) and then keep sending them every few days
> until they finally quit after THIRTY-TWO DAYS!  Talk about ridiculous.
> But, I know that I'd do better trying to win the Boston Marathon at
> my weight and age and lack of training than I would to convince some
> stupid UK mail maintainer to fix his  badly hosed system.
>
>    cyclops
>
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