On Mon, 17 Jul 1995 19:37:59 -0500 Winship said: >Well, Geert, don't you fell better for letting off some steam? ;-) A little :-). >I mentioned the 4 hour stuff as it is relatively new and seems to >be becoming more prevalent fairly quickly. The old baddies I ignore >as they are too ingrained in systems to worry about anymore. But >if I see an error from IBM I generally assume it's a "format" item >and delete it without looking, though check every once in a while but >that's always what it is. If you send mail to someone at IBMMAIL they do turn off those messages on a case by case basis, I seem to recall. Problem is that this becomes a pain to keep up with as I have many people there going on/off my lists all of the time, and in any case, 3 people who they turned off some time ago have somehow been turned back on again ... *sigh*. Another thing is that I use Mail/Mailbook (the last good non-screen version) and the index may show "Error message from IBM" (for example), but that can be from IBMMAIL.COM as much as from IBM.CC.SOMEWHERE.EDU, so I select "from IBM" using ALL (as in ALL XEDIT) and then just PF2/PF9 through them making sure they are from IBMMAIL.COM ... There's a tip :-). >One postmaster has deigned to answer my plea for mercy, said it's part >of sendmail 8 and maybe the next version will handle list mail better. >Wonderful, what about now? Douglas All we can do is *OUR* best ... we can't do their job for them :-). ** ------------------------------------------------------------------ ** ** Geert K. Marien : [log in to unmask] (Bitnet: GKMQC@PUCC) ** ** ListOwner: AIRLINE, NODEINFO, RAILROAD, STAMPS, The INDIA List ** ** (All contents are my own opinions - unless otherwise stated) ** ** ------------------------------------------------------------------ **