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From: gnu@sun.UUCP (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.mail
Subject: Fix for Arpanet junk deluges (at gateway)
Message-ID: <339@sun.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 11-Nov-83 04:38:55 EST
Article-I.D.: sun.339
Posted: Fri Nov 11 04:38:55 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Nov-83 09:05:58 EST
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If the news<->mail gateway would add "Errors-To: Unix-Emacs-Request@wherever"
to the headers of newsitems which are being posted to the Arpanet, at
least the volume of garbage coming back would be returned.  If Sendmail
can't deliver a message, and it contains an Errors-To line, it gets
sent there rather than to the poor submitter.  Of course, if the mailer
which has trouble is not Sendmail, we're out of luck.

Arpanet folks who maintain redistribution lists (eg, Unix-Emacs) are
encouraged to add this line to each message you redistribute, too.

And if many mailing lists start using Errors-To:, maybe some of the
mailers other than sendmail will get modified to use it.  Then we would
all be happier.