>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? Well, speaking as a postmaster - which will probably result in assault, from this bunch of folks - I can say that those mes- sages are *truly* nice to have around. When my user comes in breathing fire about missing mail, I can just explain that mes- sage to them and slip off the hook nicely. 8) I would suggest, however, that such "Mail delayed" messages are probably best dispatched to postmaster@sendingsite...the post- master can then inform the sending user if/when/as necessary. --Wes