On Sat, 20 Jan 1996 02:15:18 +0200 Nicolas Graner <[log in to unmask]> said: >Errors matching a pattern would be handled appropriately by auto-delete, >others would be sent to the owner. Is there any difficulty in >implementing this? Yes: you need an e-mail address to use the auto-delete function. It's not good enough to recognize the message as a delivery error (which LISTSERV does without problem), you need to figure out which is the bouncing address. Take a look at a the bounces you got recently. How many mention a slew of totally unrelated, "innocent" e-mail addresses along with the one that failed? >Similarly, the problem of digests included in error reports could be >handled by truncating all error reports to "max-error-length" lines, >where "max-error-lines" is a list header keyword. Wouldn't this satisfy >everyone, and be trivial to implement? Yes, but there's another problem: not all the messages that LISTSERV bounces to you are bounces. There's messages that trigger the loop detector without being bounces, and then there's messages from MS Mail users that always go to the bounce address rather than the list address. If you truncate them, some of the original message is lost, and the list owner won't be able to resubmit the message. Eric