On Thu, 4 Jun 1992 15:22:00 EST I said: > >I suppose every List Owner would like to reduce the numbers of >seemingly unneeded Notices. Today I found 90 new messages waiting for >me, of which 75 were in this category. With very few exceptions, the >notices concerned messages sent days ago to List subscribers whom, >more recently, I had changed to NOMAIL. Here is an extract from one >of the messages: ><extract starts> > >Your message could not be delivered to: >[log in to unmask] >Your message has been enqueued and undeliverable for 6 days. >The mail system will continue to try to deliver your message >for an additional 6 days. <extract ends> Two persons were kind enough to comment. Both indicated that about the only remedy was to persuade the notice-generating postmaster to do one or both of the following: (1) hold the nondelivered mail for a shorter time; (2) omit sending notices on intermediate days. In response to these suggestions I transmitted them deferentially and politely to postmasters at three offending nodes. One postmaster replied that the flood of notices from his site was caused by a technical error, now corrected. There was no response from the other two sites and the messages ran their course as promised. I am left with the impression that this failure is, essentially, an unchangeable feature, or bug, in the system. -Rafe- R.R. Ronkin, VITA Volunteer Volunteers in Technical Assistance <vita@gmuvax> or <[log in to unmask]>