On Wed, 7 Sep 1994 20:08:53 +0200 Eric Thomas said: >On Wed, 7 Sep 1994 13:22:16 EDT "W. K. (Bill) Gorman" ><[log in to unmask]> said: > >>I get a ton of errors of the following form for all of my lists: >> >>>---------------------------Original message---------------------------- >>>The enclosed mail file has been identified as a delivery error for list >>>EQUINE-L because it was sent to the reserved 'owner-equine-l' mailbox. >> >>Can anything be done to prevent this? > >It is a fact of life that mail systems generate delivery error reports. >Someone has to do something about them. This someone is the list owner. >Yes, that means you :-) > I have noticed that there are some mail user interfaces which seem to use the return-path tag for default replies, instead of the reply-to tag. Thus, the user's reply goes to owner-LISTNAME, gets flagged as an error, and sent to the listowner. I have told the users that unless they fix it, their messages will not be posted. jr (john riehl)