From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 8 00:53:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA05486 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 8 May 1996 00:53:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA05470 Wed, 8 May 1996 00:52:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA22002; Wed, 8 May 1996 09:51:42 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA26260; Wed, 8 May 1996 09:51:31 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id JAA14007; Wed, 8 May 1996 09:41:06 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605080741.JAA14007@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: SNAP over enthernet. To: gpalmer@FreeBSD.org (Gary Palmer) Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 09:41:06 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: faulkner@asgard.bga.com, chat@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <3038.831491706@palmer.demon.co.uk> from Gary Palmer at "May 7, 96 06:55:06 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL15 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Gary Palmer wrote: > > The recipient's MS Mail system has not delivered your message & has > > provided the following reason: > > I've been getting thse too. It just means someone is subscribed to > -questions and has screwed up. No, it basically means that someone is subscribed to questions but has a broken mailer. (That's no surprise however, after seeing the MS word there...) Mailers are supposed (by RFC-822 and ff.) to send delivery failure notices to the envelope sender address, not the message From or Reply-To address. This way, our great postmaster would have seen it instead of you. (And once he saw too many of them in a row caused by one particular destination address, he's usually going to remove the offender from the lists.) If i'm getting a mail like this, i usually: . forward it to Jonathan, so he knows about it, and . complain at the postmaster of the offending site about his broken mailer. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)