Ah-ha, I see what's happening now.  I was under the assumption that mailers
would have a more logical idea of where mail is coming from.  Obviously, in
an effort to save overhead, they're set up to make only minimal changes to a
mail header when they are passing things around.

Thanks very much for clearing that one up.  It was certainly most
infomative.

Chazzozz!!

Michael Shannon
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Parker [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, 10 October 2000 15:50
> Subject: Re: Error message form unknown address
>
>
> On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 13:31:04 +1100, Michael Shannon
> <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> >I know it's a fortnight late but I still have a question
> about this.  Why
> >would an error be generated back to LISTSERV by a forwarding address?
> >Wouldn't it be more likely to send an error back to the
> originating mail
> >server and stop there?
>
> [log in to unmask] is subscribed to the list.  USA.Net is a well
> know mail forwarder
> service.  All mail to that address actually is forwarded to
> fred@aol.com.........