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From: perry@ccssrv.UUCP (Perry Hutchison)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Jail postmasters
Summary: some sites don't have one!
Message-ID: <880@ccssrv.UUCP>
Date: 1 Dec 89 06:15:24 GMT
References: <496@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: perry@ccssrv.UUCP (Perry Hutchison)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Control-C Software, Inc., Beaverton, OR
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In article <496@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> pjd@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu
(Peter J. Dotzauer) writes:

> I propose stiff sentences for postmasters who repeatedly ignore inquiries.

You think that's bad?  I once sent mail to somesite!postmaster and it
bounced with "unknown user".  I commented on this to the postmaster of
the next system back this way along the bang-path, and found out that
the sysadmin at the Postmaster-less site was new, and unfamiliar with
mail.  I think the problem probably got fixed, but haven't had occasion
to find out for sure.

Closer to home, no one was reading the postmaster's mail here for some
time after our previous sysadmin left.  When I found out that there was
such a job, I read through the old stuff and have been keeping up since --
fortunately it turned out that the only mail there was from various
mailer-daemons.

If unable to connect with Postmaster somewhere, you could try "news",
"usenet", and/or "root", or check with a neighboring postmaster.  If
all else fails, there's always the phone.

-- 
  Perry Hutchison
  closest thing ccssrv has to a Postmaster
  ... tektronix!sequent!ccssrv!perry