On Thu, 30 Jul 1998 18:23:12 -0700 "Ronald F. Guilmette"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>If you have a defense for that which I have already stated (here)
>appears to be indefensible,
This isn't a court Ronald, and you aren't the judge. You're just a person
who called me names in public without provocation and who now has the
nerve to insinuate that the only reason I do not wish to waste my time in
a flame war is that there is no sensible explanation for the LISTSERV
behaviour you have described. Well, as I said, it should be fairly
obvious why you want to send a "probe failed" message with MAIL FROM:<>,
in fact it borders on self-evidence. I'm sure someone else on this list
will post an explanation if you really can't figure it out on your own
after making a *genuine* attempt (hint: what is the typical criterion for
auto-delete on a typical LISTSERV list?) It seems that my signoff request
needs to be approved by the list owner (?), but consider me gone.
>P.S. Why is it that you folks at lsoft have been unable to remove the
>long-bouncing addresses of subscribers to your mailing lists who have
>died and gone to heaven many months ago?
Perhaps if you would provide specifics, a meaningful and productive
discussion could ensue, but that just doesn't seem to be your goal
tonight. Without specifics, I can only make guesses. Maybe your mail
system has so many "smart" spam filters that it doesn't always return
bounces to the right address, maybe it's one of the lists where the
customer reloads a whole new roster of subscribers from a database they
maintain themselves using their own methods (typically web-only), maybe
LISTSERV is such a piece of garbage that the auto-delete mechanism just
never works and the whole auto-delete process is secretly driven by a
random number generator! Either way, if you can provide more information
I will be happy to pass it on to the people in charge of the list in
question.
Eric
