To All:
Rich should have posted this private email explanation, since so many
others have also been surprised by the sudden appearance of these bounced
messages. I suppose that we haven't seen these in the past because our remailer
custodians have been very efficient in eliminating bad addresses. Another
lesson here is to empty your mailbox promptly; if it fills up, it means bounced
messages and work for somebody. (I never realized these implications!)
--- On Mon, 24 Mar 1997 12:43:07 -0800 (PST) Rich Nute <[email protected]>
wrote:
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>Hi Ed:
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>I believe you posted a message to the listserver recently. As such,
>your address appears on the message.
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>When a message bounces from a particular invalid address, or from
>one where the mailer is unable to promptly complete the mailing, the
>mailer responds with an error report or a status report to BOTH
>addresses appearing in the message. One address is yours. The
>other address is the IEEE listserver.
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>So, when this occurs, as the message originator, you will see most
>of the error messages. (The listserver gets ALL of the error
>messages.)
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>Roger and I review all these message bounces and test the suspect
>addresses. If the address is confirmed as invalid, we unsubscribe
>it from the listserver.
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>So, it does not happen to everyone. Just to those who post messages.
>And to the administrators. I probably get 100 "bounce" messages per
>day. Most are duplicates. Out of those 100, only 5 or so are true
>invalid addresses.
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>You responded to our request for help. One chore is to review all
>the "bounce" messages, test invalid addresses, and unsubscribe any
>confirmed invalid addresses.
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>Best regards,
>Rich
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>> Rich & Roger:
>>
>> I'm suddenly getting a flock of weird emails in my mailbox, all
>> associated with the emc-pstc remailer. I seem to be getting notifications,
>> direct from various servers (like at Underwriters Labs & from Australia) of
>> undeliverable remailer postings (for various reasons like full mailbox and
>> unknown addressee).
>> Is this happening to everyone? I have not modified anything that I know
>> of. (I'm still using [email protected] as the posting address.)
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>> Name: Ed Price
>> E-mail: [email protected]
>> Date: 3/24/97
>> Time: 7:44:51 AM
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Name: Ed Price
E-mail: [email protected]
List-Post: [email protected]
Date: 3/25/97
Time: 7:23:01 AM
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