I don't know if other lists are having trouble, but there are subscribers with addresses that are reached via sprint.com in my list GIS-L, and if their mail cannot be deleivered, sprint issues error messages whcih are not caught by LISTSERV but which are distributed to the subscribers, and via a gateway are posted to a Usenet group. The problem was bad enough a few weeks back that I had to delete the subscribers via sprint and ask them to resubscribe when Sprint had finished installing new hardware. Now the problems are just occasional but still bothersome. I assume there is nothing that I myself can do. Is the appropriate action to try to get Sprint to adopt a more standard error message format, or might Eric Thomas add a 'trap' for this message format to LISTSERV soon? A couple of recent examples are appended. David Mark, "Owner", GIS-L [log in to unmask] ==================================================================== From ub!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!jvnc.net!darwin.sura .net!paladin.american.edu!auvm!SPRINT.COM!MAIL Thu Apr 9 18:21:43 EDT 1992 Article: 960 of comp.infosystems.gis Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!ub!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!jv nc.net!darwin.sura.net!paladin.american.edu!auvm!SPRINT.COM!MAIL From: [log in to unmask] (X.400 Gateway) Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis Subject: MHS NonDelivery Report Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> Date: 9 Apr 92 17:01:11 GMT Sender: "Geographic Information Systems Discussion List" <[log in to unmask]> Lines: 10 Comments: Gated by [log in to unmask] X-To: [log in to unmask] Report from domain /PRMD=/ADMD=TELEMAIL/C=US/: FAILED delivery to: 1 Recipient ORName: /S=FS.GIS.L/OU=R06F15D01A/PRMD=USDA.FS.X400/ADMD=TELEMAIL/C=US/ Translates to: [log in to unmask] Reason: transfer failure Diagnostic: maximum time expired From ub!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!darwin.sura.net!paladin.american.edu!auvm !SPRINT.COM!MAIL Sat Apr 11 09:18:18 EDT 1992 Article: 980 of comp.infosystems.gis Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!ub!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!darwin.sura.net!paladin .american.edu!auvm!SPRINT.COM!MAIL From: [log in to unmask] (X.400 Gateway) Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis Subject: MHS NonDelivery Report Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> Date: 11 Apr 92 10:29:04 GMT Sender: "Geographic Information Systems Discussion List" <[log in to unmask]> Lines: 9 Comments: Gated by [log in to unmask] X-To: [log in to unmask] Report from domain /PRMD=USDA.FS.X400/ADMD=TELEMAIL/C=US/: FAILED delivery to: 1 Recipient ORName: /OU=R06F18A/PRMD=USDA.FS.X400/ADMD=TELEMAIL/C=US/ Translates to: [log in to unmask] Reason: unable to transfer Diagnostic: unrecognized ORName Supplementary Info: DG 21018: (CEO POA) Remote Name Server unavailable.