Re: Undeliverable Message

[Andrew MacRae <macrae@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

|can't help noting that both times when loops have been a major problem on
|Paleonet, the problem was caused by a full mailbox at the Geological
|Survey of Canada. This suggests that the fault lies there.

	The only "fault" at the GSC is the tendency of their software to  
bounce messages more often than most, and for more trivial reasons.   
Individual people (i.e. the recipient of the e-mail) are not responsible  
for the limitations imposed on them by the administrators of their system,  
unless you want to scold them for not cleaning out their mail buffer more  
often.  There is potential to cause the same thing to happen on most  
systems.

	The easiest solution, probably not requiring a change to different  
list server software (i.e. *zero* cost), is to simply change the Reply-To:  
field to something other than the list itself.  This will prevent loops  
from happening.  Personally, I prefer the default address to be back to  
the originator of the message rather than the list anyway.



	-Andrew
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