Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/06/12

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Subject: Re: absurd bounced messages
From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 07:15:16 -0400
 
At 06:39 AM 12-06-97 -0300, Fred Ward wrote:
>It is now clear to all here that it is not necessary to have a malignant
>virus or a spammer or a crazed hacker to screw up (thread up ??) a
>newslist. 
>
>We have all now experienced a serious NET weakness... one guy screws up
>either his own address or closes his account and we get thousands of
>messages bounced, rebounced and re-rebounced. It does not take much math
>to see the ultimate end to this scenario.
>
>Perhaps Brian in particular and others in general would like to take
>this matter as a warning and come up with solutions to provide a way to
>terminite such bounces once they begin. There is no reason whatsoever
>that our own mailboxes as well as the NET in general should be plagued
>with kind of ridiculous duplication.

And please, if anyone on the list actually bothers to read and respond to
the message burried in the midst of these bounced posts, CHANGE THE
SUBJECT, otherwise if the word 'SMTP****" is there, the post is history, as
far as I am concerned.

Dan C.