[was: Re: Returned Message -- Re: Supporting church planters]
Stan Ryckman <stanr@sunspot.tiac.net> notes:
>...the RFC you should cite is RFC1123, not RFC822. And, unfortunately
>(and I can't understand why), the bouncing to the envelope-From address
>is a SHOULD rather than a MUST in this RFC. Be aware of this before taking
>too much of a self-righteous stand when criticizing.
I've had a spate of bounce messages to the digest Reply-To address
from cc:Mail sites, notably mcgraw-hill.com. Notes to their
postmaster seem to go ignored, and don't bounce themselves.
Fortunately, the mailer-daemon filters keep them off the list
and out of a loop, but I'm always worried that they'll get
one of these things through the filters somehow and create a
big mess with a loop, so I tend to refuse subscriptions to sites
that continue to send this sort of bounce. It's not criticism,
just self defense. You never know when they'll hide the fact
that they're a daemon.
Jim
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