On Wednesday, May 08, 1996 9:58 AM, Eric Thomas[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] wrote: > But you can't really automate that. A lot of people have systems that > will systematically tell you that they've been trying to talk to Joe's PC > for 15 minutes but failed, don't worry they'll keep trying. One posting = > one bounce, you get your 20 bounce limit every day. If you belong to the > "that's YOUR system and YOUR problem" camp, setting the user NOMAIL is > fine. If on ther other hand you want some leniency, this won't do. The > same number of errors would probably lead you to set the user NOMAIL if > they were "mailbox full" type of things. 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? Is that too costly a performance hit to justify? Phil Schwarz co-list-owner, ASPERGER@SJUVM (in beta) Phil Schwarz [log in to unmask]