[10148] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Bad Mail Bounces
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Tue Feb 8 23:50:25 1994
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@panix.com>
To: deejay@netcom.com (Data Jack)
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 23:36:02 -0500 (EST)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com, postman@lists.psi.com
In-Reply-To: <199402090237.UAA09841@netcom8.netcom.com> from "Data Jack" at Feb 8, 94 08:37:00 pm
> From: deejay@netcom.com (Data Jack)
>
> I think something is slightly off. The mail from com-priv is no longer
> headed with "From com-priv@..." but instead "From <user>..." where <user>
> is the person who sent the mail to the list. I couldn't help but notice
> this, since my mail filter was set up to handle the former, and now I'm
> suddenly getting dozens of com-priv messages in my main mailbox...
Specifically, there has been a significant change in the way the list is
being handled, in two ways:
1) The envelope from of the list is no longer set to
postman@lists.psi.com. This is incorrect and should be fixed --
bounces now go to the originator of the message instead of the list
owner.
2) The list is no longer segmented into approx 20 portions
like it used to be. This meant that for a site whose SMTP server never
went down, com-priv messages would be delivered ~3min or so. Now, they
are around 3/4 of an hour because sendmail on lists.psi.com has to run
the whole queue. One of the great things about com-priv has been it's
very fast response time; it enables discussions to happen on a
timeframe that's not possible on some other lists.
It would be nice if someone at PSI could tell us exactly _why_ these
changes were made and whether they could be reversed ASAP. The 2nd
is somewhat understandable as it reduces the load on PSI's machines,
but the first never cost them anything...
--
John Hawkinson
jhawk@panix.com
