[MLB-WIRELESS] Fw: Delivery Status Notification (Failure) ( anyone else get this? )

[Jason Clarke]

Rik,

Two things.

1/
This is neigh on a religious debate that has achieved exactly dick.

People are for, people are against and it degenerates into a flaming war
involving mothers, dogs and sharp objects.

2/
It takes two to tango. :)

J
----- Original Message -----
From: "rik" <mibz at optushome.com.au>
Cc: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 1:35 AM
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Fw: Delivery Status Notification (Failure) (
anyone else get this? )


> thanks for the poliet way you went about telling me i knew nothing about
> email, i wish there was more people like you in melbourne wireless, i use
> other group mail systems such as sorceforge and egroups (now yahoogroups)
> and they seam to get it working, so maybe before just throwing a bunch of
> tech talk at me trying to demean me in a insulting manor you could have
> polietly sent it to me off list, instead of just hitting reply to all and
> filling my inbox with your witty reply twice
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Craig Sanders" <cas at taz.net.au>
> To: "rik" <mibz at optushome.com.au>
> Cc: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 11:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Fw: Delivery Status Notification (Failure) (
> anyone else get this? )
>
>
> > On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 08:03:12PM +1100, rik wrote:
> > > Anyone else get this?
> >
> > yes. i got one too.
> >
> > > can the way emails are sent be changed ie mw in the from box and and
> > > the cc having the person who posted the message?
> >
> > no, because that would be broken.  dealing with broken-ness by breaking
> > other things is never a good idea.  it's also a really bad idea to
> > diagnose mail faults and prescribe solutions when you don't have a
> > thorough understanding of how mail and mailing lists work.
> >
> > SMTP message headers such as From:, To:, Cc: are *NOT* delivery
> > instructions, they are *comments* only. they are data, not envelope. any
> > MTA that regards them as delivery instructions is broken beyond
> > redemption.
> >
> >
> > it wouldn't make any difference in this case anyway because it wasn't
> > the problem.   the message got bounced to you, but the From header
> > didn't mention your address at all.
> >
> >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > >
> > > From: <postmaster at team.telstra.com>
> > > To: <mibz at optushome.com.au>
> > > [...]
> >
> > the bounce gets sent To your address...
> >
> > > From: "" Robert Farrar " \(via GeckoMail\)"
> <return-gfg687472609-robert-.-secnet.com.au at geckomail.org>
> > > To: <andrewh at uglybugger.org>
> > > Cc: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
> >
> > but there is no mention of your address in any of the headers.
> >
> >
> >
> > craig
> >
> > --
> > craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>
> >
> > Fabricati Diem, PVNC.
> >  -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch
> >
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> >
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