leichter (02/13/83)
[Sorry to post to the whole group; I know of no way to reach my addressee directly.] A couple of days ago I sent out follow-ups to two notes in this group. The follow-ups were apparently picked up by a forwarder and sent on to info-micro subscribers - except that 10 or so of them were on machines that were unreach- able for a day. Some program then sent me individual mail messages about each person and each item. The messages - which were from "ucbvax!Mailer", - were each over 1000 bytes long. That's an awful lot of bytes of utterly useless information to be splattering across Usenet. Is this going to happen every time I post here? Should I expect 20000 more bytes of junk as a response to this note? Should I also expect ANOTHER 20000 bytes when the 3-day limit mentioned in the first notices expires? How about NOT sending this stuff - or maybe sending just one notification per item being forwarded? If the current situation becomes the norm, we can expect Usenet to be transmitting essentially nothing but error messages in a short time. -- Jerry decvax!yale-comix!leichter