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Aucbvax.4769 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Wed Oct 28 20:20:32 1981 mailing list distributions Via: Ucb-C70.ArpaNet; 28 Oct 81 19:49-PDT

In-real-life: Steven M. Bellovin

The problem we've all been complaining about recently is that some mail systems (often MMDF, from U. of Delaware, I think) try to warn you if a message is delayed, or can't be delivered. It's a good idea for personal communications, as Dave Crocker mentioned, but seems to fail when used for broad-spectrum mailing lists. My take is that a single mechanism is being used for two different purposes, and that *two* types of lists are needed -- the second type would be used for things like unix-wizards, and failure messages would go to the list maintainer, listing only the recipients who did not get the message.

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