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"Russell, D (Duncan)" <[log in to unmask]>
Tue, 5 Dec 2000 10:11:10 -0000
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Hello all,

This is probably a query which should have gone direct to LSoft support, but
I thought I'd air it here out of potential interest to other users.

We have recently imported several lists from another organisation, one of
the lists was called owner-talk.

Initially I did not suspect a problem with this list, but it rapidly came to
light that mails to the list were falling into a black hole, no response, no
error returned, not logged anywhere.

I guessed finally that the machine was actually looking for the owner of the
list talk which did not exist.

What I wanted to ask was why there was no error report generated, when
someone mailed to owner-talk why did they not receive an error saying that
the list talk did not exist, or that no owner of that list could be found ?

We have  subsequently renamed the list owners-talk and it works fine, but
the strange behaviour was slightly worrying, since we did not know there was
a problem at first.

Thanks for any pointers
Duncan Russell

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