[plug] old e-mails

[Bill Pickett]

apologies accepted ;)  -- it did not really bother me -- I have to put up
with the word wrap issue so why not be able to handle a few spurious
kilobytes of previosly read volume !
bp

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Kemner [mailto:zombie at wasp.net.au]
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 9:13 PM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] old e-mails


On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Christian wrote:

> > Could be spark having a fit or some sort of net burp.  Likely the
former.
>
> But I think those emails are just bounces from a subscriber gone awol.
>
> The emails from Simon Scott don't seem to be anything about spark.

Yes, except the bounce messages appear to be from a VERY badly
misconfigured mail server (which are becoming more and more common as
more people think they can point and click their way to running an
Internet server)

a) denying email for a domain it is authoritative for with the "We do not
   relay" error message (ie they forgot to tell this server that it is
   authoritative for this domain)
b) sending bounces to the From: address, not the Sender:
   (very bad thing to do)

I've removed that address from the list

I would have removed Simon's too if I'd gotten to it earlier, but it
appears the duplicate messages have caught up with the real ones (or
fairly close to anyway) and I hope that when Simon finally reads his
listmail he will realise something is up and fix it.

My apologies for not getting to this sooner

 - Matt