On Sat,  20 Jan 1996  02:15:18 +0200 Nicolas  Graner <[log in to unmask]>
said:
 
>Errors matching a pattern would be handled appropriately by auto-delete,
>others  would  be  sent  to  the  owner.  Is  there  any  difficulty  in
>implementing this?
 
Yes: you need an e-mail address to use the auto-delete function. It's not
good enough to recognize the message  as a delivery error (which LISTSERV
does  without problem),  you need  to figure  out which  is the  bouncing
address. Take a look at a the  bounces you got recently. How many mention
a slew of  totally unrelated, "innocent" e-mail addresses  along with the
one that failed?
 
>Similarly, the  problem of  digests included in  error reports  could be
>handled  by truncating  all error  reports to  "max-error-length" lines,
>where "max-error-lines" is a list  header keyword. Wouldn't this satisfy
>everyone, and be trivial to implement?
 
Yes,  but there's  another problem:  not all  the messages  that LISTSERV
bounces  to you  are  bounces.  There's messages  that  trigger the  loop
detector without  being bounces, and  then there's messages from  MS Mail
users that always go to the  bounce address rather than the list address.
If you truncate them, some of the  original message is lost, and the list
owner won't be able to resubmit the message.
 
  Eric