Re: Useless NDRs [Was: Nondeliverable mail]

[Adam Bailey]

Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> At 11:12 PM -0500 8/24/99, Adam Bailey wrote:
> 
>> Read the headers. Other than not being compliant with LISTSERV,
>> there's nothing wrong with AOL's error messages.
> 
> AOL's actually a lot more reliable than most sites. I feel perfectly 
> comfortable removing a "user unknown" on the first bounce with AOL 
> than with anyone, where I usually wait a while to make sure....

Well, even I wouldn't go that far. AOL, like any giant site, has a
tendency to have the occasional bad day where it sends out thousands
of erroneous error messages. But those are usually easy to spot; when
you have fifty of your AOL subscribers suddenly generating errors,
it's a good idea to give them a day.


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