> - a demonstration of familiarity with Internet mail errors and debugging them How much listowners need to know about errors and debugging depends on how they plan to manage the lists. I know next to nothing about such matters but haven't gotten any complaints in the years I've been running lists (two listserv lists, one listproc list). With regular subscribers, it becomes obvious after a while which sites have flaky systems that go into temporary tantrums. Unless the error messages for those sites get up into the hundreds, I let them slide by. If the error messages are many and I don't have reason to believe the system will be back to normal quickly, I delete or set nomail. If I tried to debug every error message, I'd have to quit my job and devote full time to playing with Net stuff -- which would be fun, of course, but I might lose my account if I had no affiliation with a university and I would sooner or later starve to death with no income -- and my dog would be deprived of snausages. I have all error messages filtered into an errors/ file, which keeps the clutter from getting mixed up with my regular mail. And I have to admit that when I was about to leave for Europe for a week last month, I changed those filter-rules from "save in [path][filename]" to "delete". If having all error messages deleted for a week hurt anything or anybody, I haven't heard about it. --Natalie ([log in to unmask])