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Subject: Re: On client defaults and list configurations
From: Russ Allbery <rra @ stanford . edu>
Organization: The Eyrie
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2002 10:03:54 -0700
To: list-managers <list-managers @ greatcircle . com>
In-reply-to: <B94BE0AC.46947%chuqui@plaidworks.com> (Chuq Von Rospach'smessage of "Fri, 05 Jul 2002 23:47:56 -0700")
References: <B94BE0AC.46947%chuqui@plaidworks.com>
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Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui@plaidworks.com> writes:

> In general, as long as errors-to points to where the envelope goes, it's
> harmless. Especially since some of these sites will return it to the
> "From" address (REALLY the wrong thing) if it's not there. And since I
> can tweak the headers to avoid that, I do, rather than say "you're
> broken, you must die". I save that for sites that are really broken.

I'm not saying that "you're broken, you must die."  I'm saying that the
address is bouncing *anyway*, and generally what one does with bouncing
addresses is remove them from the list (sometimes via some other bounce
process).

Separately, the server is broken.  But as long as the address isn't
bouncing, we'd never notice, and when it is, well, I'd remove the address
for any sort of bounce.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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