On Thu, 18 Nov 1993 13:00:57 -0500 Tansin A. Darcos & Company said: >From: Paul Robinson <[log in to unmask]> >The answer is to QUIET SERVE OFF the mail server [...] > then remove whoever didn't sign off SERVE OFF is not a command for owners. Servers are servers and lists are lists. And the user may not be on your list at all but only some local distribution. > >[...] that says that because the gateway works wrong, we're going to >punish everyone who is on MCI Mail [...] I'd not say "punish" but otherwise - exactly that. I have been through such discussions a number of times and I don't care whether it's a single host not conforming to standards or MCIMail or the .d400.de domain. Obviously it's already a pain in the neck - how far should tolerance go in your opinion? If our nameserver is fishy do you think we could successfully argue: " you can't punish the users in our domain just because the admin goofed, doesn't care, or is unreachable so whenever you get rejections from our domain then simply stop SMTP, restart your nameserver, ... " Christian