Although I think that everyone is trying to be helpful, maybe we should stop our discussion here. Everytime you post something I get another copy or two of that header in my mailbox--so someone doesn't want us to talk about mailer-daemon. Thanks for trying to help: I'm glad to know that I am not alone with this one.--Paul. > On Sun, 29 May 1994 19:40:32 +0200 Anita Cohen-Williams said: > >Here's another amazing side of returned mail; it's deja vu time! I am getting > >undeliverable mail messages from someone I deleted from my list two days ago! > >What is going on this time? Also, I am still getting those demon messages from > >MAIL.LOC.GOV. about a server being served out. Can someone translate? > > Again, why the hell bother? LOTS of time mail is delayed for some > reason or other. Three days ago I got some mail sent from a BITNET list > on April 16. Why? I don't know. If it takes the snail mail two weeks > to come from New York instead of three or four days, I may be mad, but > why should I waste my time, or theirs, going down to the Post Office > and saying WHERE and WHY did my mail get delayed? Maybe the mail was > delayed, maybe they have an infinite loop of their own. Not my problem, > except to zap all the stuff from them. If you really want to get mad, > get some users from a certain site in UK that delivers to a lot of > apparently dialup (slip/ppp) users who drop off the edge of the world, > so the daemon sends you notices that they didn't get mail in three days > (at which point I zap them) and then keep sending them every few days > until they finally quit after THIRTY-TWO DAYS! Talk about ridiculous. > But, I know that I'd do better trying to win the Boston Marathon at > my weight and age and lack of training than I would to convince some > stupid UK mail maintainer to fix his badly hosed system. > > cyclops > > Dan Lester Internet: [log in to unmask] > Network Information Coordinator Bitnet: ALILESTE@IDBSU > Boise State University Library > Boise, Idaho 83725 In the kingdom of the blind, the > 208-385-1235 one-eyed man is king. Erasmus. 1523 > -- Dr. Paul S. di Virgilio, University of Toronto [log in to unmask]