On Thu, 18 Aug 1994, James Ford wrote: > On a different note, I just received the following error message. I wish > they would cut their time down to 3 days or (horrors) 1 week. :-( One > wonders how many times this will show up...... > > ------------------------------ Message in error ------------------------------- > Subject: Waiting Mail > Date: Wed, 17 Aug 94 3:33:31 GMT-60:00 > Sender: [log in to unmask] > > After 8 days (205 hours) your message for the site telmar.demon.co.uk > has not been delivered. This is either because the site, which is > on a dialup to the Internet, has not been connected to the Demon > service in that time or because the site's mail system is not working. > > Attempts to deliver the message will continue for a further 23 days. > No further action is required by you. > I've gotten these things from UK before, and dreaded a flood of error messages I couldn't stop. Nothing ever comes of them though so I just ignore them. Twentythree days is rather ridiculous, though, and 14 ain't much better. Douglas Winship Austin, Texas [log in to unmask] Secondary AUTOCAT Listowner