On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 12:24:13AM +0530, USM Bish wrote:
> Hi folk,
>
> Just a small clarification. The mail placed below was received
> by me today from "bounce-debian-user". This was NOT initiated by
> me. Quite surprised to see my name on the LOG (List of Greats!).
>
> Did others receive this mail too ?
>
> Could someone enlighten me on what this bounce-debian-user is ?
> > From: bounce-debian-user=bish=nde.vsnl.net.in@lists.debian.org
> > Resent-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > X-Mailing-List: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> archive/latest/130541
> > X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Precedence: list
> > Resent-Sender: debian-user-request@lists.debian.org
1) Sending this mail once was a great plenty. Three times seems a bit
excessive, don't you think?
2) Reading the headers shows quite plainly that this email came from
the "debian-user" mailing list, to which I presume you are subscribed.
3) The "bounce" line is a VERP. I found some documentation here:
http://www.courier-mta.org/draft-varshavchik-verp-smtpext.txt
This feature allows the list to automatically nuke you from the
list if your mail starts boucing or doing other weird stuff.
4) If you do not believe you are subscribed to the debian-user list, I
encourage you to send an email to "majordomo@lists.debian.org", blank
subject, body containing "which <email>" where <email> is your email
address.
HTH,
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Micromuse Inc. | than a perfect plan tomorrow.
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