GUBBINS@RADC-TOPS20.ARPA (02/23/84)
From: Gern <GUBBINS@RADC-TOPS20.ARPA> As anyone who has sent a message to this (or any) mailing list knows, bad addresses of persons on the list get kicked back to the sender. This gives the submitter a bunch of rejected mail from persons he has never heard of. There is nothing the maintainer of the list can do to find the bad addresses, except send a test message thru and hack off the rejected kickbacks. Requests for addition to this list is rather good, and many hosts I have never heard from (but work okay). Some sites re-redistribute this list, so that kickback problems may not be related to this master list, but several systems deep somewhere. The first thing I checked into when I got the mailing list to redistribute was this problem, and it goes beyond the scope of control of this system as the rejected messages are sent back to the submitter from the problem site, not back here first. Yesterday, I hacked off 2 more problem addresses, one never gave any trouble before and the other from a new person that had a stable address. The point is, unless I submit something and get the kickbacks, or persons are kind enough to flag me as to the problem addresses, I have no way to find out the problems. If someone knows a way to control and/or monitor this, please flag me. Thanx Gern INFO-HZ100@RADC-TOPS20 Coordinator ------- -------