Dear Listserv List -- In one of my several capacities at UC Berkeley I am the
postmaster for UCBCMSA (viz. cmsa.berkeley.edu).  One of our networking guys
recently forwarded to me a complaint from the administrator of a system out
there.  It seems that this administrator had had a user who had subscribed to a
UC Berkeley list, and this user had left and was no longer receiving mail, so
the administrator wanted this user to be unsubscribed to the list.  Apparently
the administrator had sent mail to the owner of the list in question using the
OWNER-LISTNAME@HOSTNAME convention.  He claims that this mail was bounced back
to him as undeliverable.  I checked the list and saw that there is indeed
several owners defined for this list.

My question:  Why did this guy's mail bounce?   Under what circumstances does
the OWNER-LISTNAME@HOSTNAME convention not work?  Do we have to do something
on our system beside define the list owner(s) in the header of the list???

Thanks in advance.  By the way, this person (the administrator of the remote
system) never sent me his bounced mail, so I don't know whether he's really
correct or whether he mis-typed something.  However, I'm being hounded by
our networking staff to determine whether something is wrong on my system.
So your help will be greatly appreciated.  Thanks again.

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David Kalins
Postmaster for UCBCMSA
Central Computing Services
University of California, Berkeley           "What we don't know
Berkeley, CA 94720                            far outweighs what we do."
(510) 642-0514                                                   --Me
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