Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!vacs.uwp.wisc.edu!datta From: datta@vacs.uwp.wisc.edu (David Datta) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Errors-To: (so what do we do now) Message-ID: <10095@uwm.edu> Date: 10 Mar 91 02:39:26 GMT References: <45833180@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <4081344@bfmny0.BFM.COM> Sender: news@uwm.edu Reply-To: datta@vacs.uwp.wisc.edu (David Datta) Organization: University of Wisconsin - Parkside Lines: 24 Now that we have all determined that the Errors-To: is ignored in many cases and that modifying the headers so bounced mail isn't forwarded to the list, is considered "a bad thing" what should we do about it now? I run 2 mailing lists and I have been changing the headers, recipient's MUA be damned. After our system was brought to it's knees due to stupid mailers bouncing mail to the list, I started changing the headers. I know this is rather harsh but the reason for having the list is that the sender wants his mail forwarded to the list, the recipients don't want to read mailer-daemon mega-bounces, we don't want our machine shoveling daemon bounces back and forth. The simplest and only solution I could find is to start munging the headers. It makes it difficult to reply only to the sender but I feel that this solution is the best of two "bad things". So, instead of discussing "you are doing an evil", how do we go about fixing the problem? Does someone have something that both WORKS and is GOOD? -- -Dave datta@vacs.uwp.edu [....uwm!uwpvacs!datta] Are you a lemming? Lemmings jump off cliffs every four years. There are no five year old lemmings. Unless they've learned to think for themselves.