RICK@mit-mc.arpa (02/17/83)
From: Richard P. Wilkes <RICK@mit-mc.arpa> Anyone who has ever sent a message to a large list that is not on a digest (such as Info-Micro or -CPM) knows that for the next week or so, he can expect to get ad infinitum FAILED message notes clogging up his mailbox. This is really a burden and does discourage one from sending if your mailbox isn't virtually boundless. A recent message of mine to the lists received over 25 failure notices during a week period. The message was several hundred lines long, and these "helpful" mailers always seem to return a copy of the message (or at least a good chunk of it). My question is this: why not add an option in the mail header to simply dump the message into the communications wasteland if it is undeliverable. Something like the NOQC option at MIT to eliminate queued notifications. It would CERTAINLY cut down on net traffic, especiialy on Usenet/phonenet/et al. I don't know where this should be proposed, but it certainly should be done sometime SOON. Perhaps someone out there who knows the proper channels could pass the idea along... I can't wait for the rejections from THIS message... Trying to be patient. -r