At 16:23 05/13/96 -0500, you wrote: >On Mon, 13 May 1996, Phil Schwarz wrote: > >> >> How about a feature that would instruct Listserv to simply swallow bounces >> containing a certain string, such as "transient failure", or containing the >> address of a particularly verbose mail server that complains a lot about >> transient delivery outages with do-nothing messages? > >Well, you know some braindead mail systems consider *everything* a transient >failure. It may stretch to days, or weeks, or... But, hey, it eventually >gets fixed (maybe) so it's transient, right? > >If listserv "swallowed" them all and the subscriber asked "why am I not >getting my mail" all the listowner could say would be "I dunno, I haven't >seen any error messages for your subscription." > >Douglas > Douglas Winship Hays County, Texas [log in to unmask] > Secondary AUTOCAT Listowner > MEDLAB-L > How about a feature that lopped the message off the end of an error header? Philo -- ====================================================================== Philip B Janus ||"Actually, I'm master of Samantha's [log in to unmask] || fate; she's only leasing it." *2*E GULC <*> || -God http://www.radix.net/~philo || ======================================================================