I manage 15 lists serving about fifteen hundred people who are
interested in various aspects of human communications studies.  The
majority of these folks are professors and students who are affiliated
with the humanities and social sciences.  These lists, or "hotlines" as
we call them, are provided through Comserve@Rpicicge which serves as an
interface to our Listserv.  I mention all this because I think that I
may be representing the perspective of a group of users who are not all
that frequently heard from.
 
    Lately I have been getting a lot of mail from confused users and all
of it is in response to the automatically generated messages that one
receives as one's listserv contribution percolates through the net and
encounters problems here and there.  The bottom line on this is that
some people are confused by these messages, some are not confused but
think I should see them, some are annoyed by them, and all want them to
stop coming.  The psychology of the situation, if I'm reading it
correctly, is that my people want feedback to assure them that their
posting has been processed but don't want to hear about delivery
problems that are encountered along the way.  I sympathize, but as far
as I know, I'm unable to do anything to turn off these remote
acknowledgement/problem report messages.
 
    Is it possible that there could be a fix in the works that would
provide a method of re-directing or suppressing these messages?
 
Hopefully,
 
Tim Stephen
Stephen@Rpicicge