Okay, now I understand.

Thanks for the explanation.


Mark


On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Eric Thomas wrote:

> >Well, Nathan, I see that you understand the issue, but from a customer's
> >point of view, it seems to be a flaw in the way listserv's backbone runs
> >to allow a customer to unilateraly send bad mail to everyone on the
> >backbone.
>
> But the bad mail isn't accepted by the backbone, this is why you get all
> these messages. This is also the most LISTSERV can do - reject these
> requests.
>
> The sending LISTSERV site is told it is part of the backbone and configured
> properly. It doesn't know that there is a corporate gateway somewhere that
> introduces all these problems. Even if it did, customers would never accept
> code in LISTSERV that would make it shut itself off when it suspects it is
> sending bad jobs into the backbone. This code would by its nature be based
> on heuristics and heuristics can fail. I wouldn't buy such software myself, so
> I can't expect our customers to do so :-)
>
>   Eric
>