Hello Listservians; Yesterday, on a bright sunny Sunday afternoon, some postings to my Help-Net list, at Templevm, elicited strange behavior on the part of Listserv. At about 1300 EST, Help-Net subscribers received bounced mail from original Help-Net postings which were sent to someone on a system called "Dodger" as you can see below. It seems like this guy Floyd ran out of mail space on Dodger and Dodger bounced several Help-Net mail postings back to Help-Net. Listserv distributed these error notes to each Help-Net subscriber probably because the error notices were sent back to Help-Net in a nonstandard fashion preventing listserv from catching them and only forwarding them to me rather than the whole list. Postings on Sunday evening did not have this same effect so I guess Floyd got back and read his unread mail. Either that, or he signed off Help-Net later that day. I can't find a subscription entry for anyone named Floyd so perhaps he removed himself from the list. Does this make sense? Several subscribers sent me notes expressing anger at having been subjected to about 20 of these error messages from Help-Net. How can this be avoided in the future? Stan Horwitz Listserv Postmaster Temple University Acknowledge to: OASIS@TEMPLEVM (or VM.TEMPLE.EDU) ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- UUCP request floyd!D.floyd8b77c82 to dodger!D.floyd8b77c82 failed on system 'dodger'. Reason for failure: remote system can't create temp file remote file system is low on free space UUCP request floyd!D.dodge4893c82 to dodger!X.dodgerA4893 failed on system 'dodger'. Reason for failure: remote system can't create temp file remote file system is low on free space