On Fri, 07 Dec 2001 23:11:42 -0500 bob <Puff@NLE" <bob@nleaudio.com>> wrote:
Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
Unless, of course, the postmaster implements bounces using a "not here any more" mailbot, which will strip all of the headers, not return as a bounce, and probably not be parsable by anything but a human, and maybe not then.
This is called "being helpful", of course.
I -just- experienced one of those! Had a bunch of them in my mailman-owner mailbox from this one guy on an active list. Sigh.
The ones I love even more are the, "User <whatever> has not collected this message of Subject: Something and MessageID: SomethingElse for more than 30 days. You can gleefully unsubscribe them of course, but the mail system on the other end will gleefully go on reminding you of some number of messages from 6 months earlier and everything since...
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J C Lawrence
---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas.
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http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.