Great Circle Associates List-Managers
(October 2002)
 

Indexed By Date: [Previous] [Next] Indexed By Thread: [Previous] [Next]

Subject: Re: AOL bounce message due to an AOL user's
From: Thomas Gramstad <thomas @ ifi . uio . no>
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 00:07:40 +0200 (MEST)
To: Nick Simicich <njs @ scifi . squawk . com>
Cc: list-managers <list-managers @ greatcircle . com>
In-reply-to: <5.1.0.14.2.20021025143825.39fb3ea0@199.74.151.1>
Reply-to: Thomas Gramstad <thomas @ ifi . uio . no>

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Nick Simicich wrote:

> No. The sender is not xxxxxxx@yahoo.com, the sender is the list.
> The bounce is sent to the list because that is the sender.  The mail
> is not from xxxxxxx@yahoo.com, the mail is from your list.  AOL
> figured that out for the purpose of sending the bounce to the right
> place.  They should also understand that for the purpose of
> filtering the mail.
>
> At the very least, AOL's message is wrong, it should be something on
> the order of "composed by" as opposed to "from".  They have no other
> place to send the bounce, it would never be correct for them to send
> it to Mr.  xxxxxxx who gets mail at yahoo.

Then why send filter-bounces at all?  Why can't the filtering or
user-initiated blocking happen quietly?

Thomas Gramstad
thomas@ifi.uio.no



Follow-Ups:
References:
Indexed By Date Previous: Re: AOL bounce message due to an AOL user's
From: Nick Simicich <njs@scifi.squawk.com>
Next: Re: AOL bounce message due to an AOL user's
From: Adam Bailey <adamb@lull.org>
Indexed By Thread Previous: Re: AOL bounce message due to an AOL user's
From: Nick Simicich <njs@scifi.squawk.com>
Next: Re: AOL bounce message due to an AOL user's
From: Nick Simicich <njs@scifi.squawk.com>

Google
 
Search Internet Search www.greatcircle.com