At 11:30 AM 1/18/96 EST, Eric Thomas wrote: >On Thu, 18 Jan 1996 08:02:47 -0800 "Kevin J. Sinclair" <[log in to unmask]> >said: > >>Second, is from Eric himself, in reply to Kathleen. Eric says that >>listserv both "summarizes" and "forwards" the errors; but I don't see >>any "summary". Just forwarding. > >You may want to check your mailbox more carefully. Every day, you get a >report on the bounces that LISTSERV *did* understand. What it forwards is >what it DOES NOT UNDERSTAND (emphasis mine). If it doesn't understand >what a message says and what the bouncing address is, it can't possibly >summarize it. > > Eric > Eric: No need to get the hackles up. Yes, it appears Kevin missed the error report. However, his Owner Digest looks like a really good idea. I delete over 100 messages a day: >LAWSCH-L: error report from AMERICAN.EDU< Check the email address (it's probably one I've seen before) and delete. Automatic killfiling doesn't help, since I still have to download them all. Recently, I had two brushes with mailers that had the retry set for two weeks (!). Two weeks worth of repeats for a moderate volume list times two. An owner digest would have meant that the digest I download anyway would have been just a little longer. Again, if you're keeping track, I emphatically vote FOR this type of capability in a future release of LISTSERV. Philo ====================================================================== Philip B Janus || [log in to unmask] Law School List Owner || 1E GULC <*> http://www.radix.net/~philo || ======================================================================