On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Nick Simicich wrote:
> >Then why send filter-bounces at all? Why can't the filtering or
> >user-initiated blocking happen quietly?
>
> If it were a privately composed piece of mail that you sent to someone, you
> might well want to know whether or not it actually got through. It is right
> to return a bounce.
I think the question is whether this should be considered a bounce (and so
go to the envelope sender) or be considered an autoresponse (and so go to
the header reply-to or header from).
> The real issue is whether it is right to bounce mailing
> list mail.
As you say below, it is very hard to distinguish. I have a rant about
what autoresponders should and shouldn't do. But it isn't clear that this
is should be an autoresponder.
> The more I consider this, the more I feel that it is not right for AOL to
> filter this mail at all based on the fact that the user instructed AOL to
> block mail from an individual, but then mail came from a mailing list was
> blocked instead. I think that this is a bug and someone who cares and who
> has an AOL account should report this.
I'm coming to agree with you (and am revising my initial stance based on
what you and others have written). This really is an automated user end
mail filtering. It shouldn't really be generating bounces.
-j
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