Okay, now I understand. Thanks for the explanation. Mark On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Eric Thomas wrote: > >Well, Nathan, I see that you understand the issue, but from a customer's > >point of view, it seems to be a flaw in the way listserv's backbone runs > >to allow a customer to unilateraly send bad mail to everyone on the > >backbone. > > But the bad mail isn't accepted by the backbone, this is why you get all > these messages. This is also the most LISTSERV can do - reject these > requests. > > The sending LISTSERV site is told it is part of the backbone and configured > properly. It doesn't know that there is a corporate gateway somewhere that > introduces all these problems. Even if it did, customers would never accept > code in LISTSERV that would make it shut itself off when it suspects it is > sending bad jobs into the backbone. This code would by its nature be based > on heuristics and heuristics can fail. I wouldn't buy such software myself, so > I can't expect our customers to do so :-) > > Eric >