Many seem to agree that it would be nice if listserv could interpret more
error formats, but not everybody has the same needs. Wouldn't it be easier to
make this customizable on a list-by-list basis? There could be keywords to
define patterns (regular expressions?) indicative of transient and permanent
errors respectively. L-Soft could predefine any number of these if they wish.
Then, a listowner who gets loads of errors of a particular type would add a
pattern for it, under their own responsibility. 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?
 
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?
 
Nicolas