emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) (03/23/91)
If you are postmaster this is recommended reading. If you run a mailing list it is required reading. The good folks at ISI document every error bounced message that they have ever seen (which is quite a few) and provide amazingly nice, polite, sensible replies to the right people for all of them. they name names too, this RFC pulls no punches -- real bounced mail from real people at real companies (!) as well as the ordinary assortment of bitnet, uucp, multiple gateway problems. the obvious answer to it all is "you should consider using netnews for big mailing lists", until you come across all of the news - mail gateway issues. (sigh) -- Msen Edward Vielmetti /|--- moderator, comp.archives emv@msen.com From: jkrey@ISI.EDU (Joyce K. Reynolds) Newsgroups: comp.doc Posted-Date: Fri, 22 Mar 91 15:12:08 PST A new Request for Comments is now available from the Network Information Center in the online library at NIC.DDN.MIL. RFC 1211: Title: Problems with the Maintenance of Large Mailing Lists Author: A. Westine and J. Postel Mailbox: Westine@ISI.EDU, Postel@ISI.EDU Pages: 54 Characters: 96,167 Updates/Obsoletes: none pathname: RFC:RFC1211.TXT This RFC discusses problems with maintaining large mailing lists, especially the processing of error reports. This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.