At 7:00 PM -0800 10/30/00, Michael S. Johnson wrote:
> > I find it irritating, but who says how long is too long to hold mail
> > for delivery? three days? A week? a month? six?
>
>Robert Dinse and I are not complaining about how long to hold mail. We
>are complaining about how to handle "stale e-mail", no matter what they
>mean by that.
I'm not sure I see any difference but a cosmetic one here. Would it
be any better if that end-user's mail was being held in a uucp queue
for six months before being returned?
It's all the same thing.
automating bounce mail takes care of this just fine -- let a program
worry about it, and you'll never even know they're being stupid.
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