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Subject: Re: AOL bounce message due to an AOL user's
From: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey @ goldmark . org>
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 07:52:27 -0800 (PST)
To: Nick Simicich <njs @ scifi . squawk . com>
Cc: list-managers <list-managers @ greatcircle . com>
In-reply-to: <5.1.0.14.2.20021026185928.047eb888@199.74.151.1>
References: <5.1.0.14.2.20021026021227.05934cf8@199.74.151.1><5.1.0.14.2.20021025143825.39fb3ea0@199.74.151.1><5.1.0.14.2.20021026021227.05934cf8@199.74.151.1><5.1.0.14.2.20021026185928.047eb888@199.74.151.1>
Reply-to: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey @ goldmark . org>

On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Nick Simicich wrote:

> At 05:42 AM 2002-10-26 -0700, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:

> >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).
>
> It is never right to send any autoresponse regarding the message
> delivery status to anything other than the RFC821 sender [...] RFC822
> 4.4.4 attempts to discuss this,

Yikes!  I know this (or should know this).  I discuss that in my "bad
bounce" rant

  http://www.goldmark.org/email/badbounce.html

I think I need to initiate a self-imposed moritorium on me posting before
sufficient caffine.  (But that rule would rule out this post, and maybe it
should.)

-j

-- 
Jeffrey Goldberg                            http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/
Relativism is the triumph of authority over truth, convention over justice


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