mat (04/29/83)
<FLAME ON> In the course of one day I have seen TWO copies of an 365 line article (the SAME <insert favorite expletive> article) sent out with a ``failed message -- return to sender'' header. This is a ``service'' provided by some mailing--list Arpa--related system. These garbage messages are being bounced around on 500 machines at considerable expense in phone bills and machine time. Nobody wants to read them; I suspect that most folks don't even want to SEE the damn things. Why are it out there? Because of a brain--damaged interface between two very different network systems. ``Return to sender--message failed messages'' shouldn't be gatewayed BACK from a mailing--list system to a bulletin board system. Can anyone fix this nuisance? <FLAME Freakin' OFF> Mark Terribile hou5e!mat