[521] in Resnet-Forum
Re: question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Naomi B. Schmidt)
Tue Feb 28 14:25:07 1995
To: Bruce=Mathew%CCAdmin%SJC@dante.saintjoe.edu
Cc: resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 Feb 1995 09:43:08 CST."
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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 14:08:28 EST
From: "Naomi B. Schmidt" <nschmidt@MIT.EDU>
>Just for my own info: When ever I send a note to this group I receive
>several bounced messages, even some from MIT, is my message getting out to
>the group? I received my own copy of my message from the group, so I
>suspect it has. Are these addresses no longer in service or am I doing
>something wrong from my end?
>
>Can anyone tell me who I should contact with these "bouncy" messages?
>
>Or, I can just ignore them like I did the last time.... :)
Just for everyone's information -
When a message to an address on the resnet-forum mailing list cannot be
delivered for some reason (user's account no longer valid, something wrong
with the mail server at a receiving institution, etc), the message bounces
and gets sent back to me and to the original poster of the message.
Sometimes the bounced message comes from the MIT mail server and sometimes
from the mail server at the bouncing institution. When this happens, I try
to contact the postmaster at the bouncing institution to find out the reason
for the problem, and usually it is solved in one of two ways - (1) I remove
the offending address from the mailing list because the account is no longer
valid, or (2) the ailing mail server is cured and no longer refuses to accept
mail.
Naomi Schmidt
