[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Another failure notice (fwd)



On Mon, 25 May 1998 Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:

> Look folks:
> 
> This is not primarily a debian.org problem. If you post to the list and you get
> a "delivery failure notice" from somewhere else, it is because the destination
> site has mailed the error message back to you, as sender of the message which
> failed to get delivered.
> 
> The debian-user list-admins should (but may not necessarily) also get copies of
> the failure notice -- it depends on how the destination site is configured.
> 
> In due course, list-admins should remove subscribers with persistent delivery
> problems. However, this should not be done immediately because the problem may
> only be temporary. Delivery problems are a fact of life, and at any time there
> are almost certain to be some subscribers to a mailing list with delivery
> problems, so people who post will get these messages. You just have to live
> with it.
> 

Sounds fair enough.  I guess a new procmail recipe is in order ;)

Chris



--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org


Reply to: