From: Hugh Messenger Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 01:46:13 -0600 (CST) Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA - Steve de Bruyn
Anyone know where Steve's disappeared to? I just noticed that his mail is bouncing.
Apologies for the blizzard of amdinistrivia mail - it's been a bad hair day here at Muppet Labs.
[More detail than you want to know follows, but while I'm explaining my "job", I might as well. If you are a member of the harp-l-dawn-patrol, you probably ought to read this ...]
If I'm reading the mail headers right, then anyone sending mail to harp-l knows that mail to Steve has been bouncing, because they get several copies of a bounce message from PCMA~omewhere or other saying so. Given that I've sent so many messages to harp-l in the last few days, you'd have thought I would have noticed.
The trouble is, only about 1% of bounce mail gets back to the sender of a message to harp-l. The rest correctly processes the headers majordomo inserts into the message saying "send errors and failed delivery reports to harp-l-boun~arply.com", which is me. Or rather, a set of filters which intercept it and dump it in a folder which I look at once a week ... or month ... or never.
These filters also catch mail coming back to me as "me", the sender of a message to harp-l, as opposed to "harp-l-bounce". So stuff like the PCMAIL bounces go in with other, erm, 14,567 bounce messages produced by harp-l so far this month.
So. The dawn patrol should let me know when senders of mail start to receive bounce messages.
*VERY* soon the web interface will give the dawn patrol a way of handling bounce mail themselves, i.e. a form with a button to move the offending address onto harp-l-friends, kind of like SET NOMAIL in the WKU days, without requiring "operator intervention".
