What's a DSN?

1999-05-18 Thread Barton
Ok, I give up, what's a DSN?

Re: What's a DSN?

1999-05-18 Thread Russell Nelson
Barton writes: > Ok, I give up, what's a DSN? Delivery Status Notice. It's an attempt to solve every possible problem related to email delivery, including bounces, delayed messages, vacation responses, and changes of email address. Unfortunately, it's so complicated

Re: What's a DSN?

1999-05-18 Thread Chris Garrigues
> From: Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 18 May 1999 15:47:26 - > > Delivery Status Notice. It's an attempt to solve every possible > problem related to email delivery, including bounces, delayed > messages, vacation responses, and changes of email address. > Unfortunately, it's s

Re: What's a DSN?

1999-05-18 Thread Sam
Barton writes: > Ok, I give up, what's a DSN? Read RFC1891, RFC1892, RFC1893, and RFC1894. A standard format for a bounce message. Well, somewhat more than that. -- Sam

Re: What's a DSN?

1999-05-18 Thread Sam
Russell Nelson writes: > Delivery Status Notice. It's an attempt to solve every possible > problem related to email delivery, including bounces, delayed > messages, vacation responses, and changes of email address. > Unfortunately, it's so complicated that it hasn't had sufficient > penetration

Re: What's a DSN?

1999-05-18 Thread Adam D. McKenna
Wait, do DSN's include return receipts for successfully delivered mail? --Adam - Original Message - From: Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 1999 12:17 PM Subject: Re: What's a DSN? : Barton writes: : : > Ok, I give u

Re: What's a DSN?

1999-05-18 Thread Sam
Adam D. McKenna writes: > Wait, do DSN's include return receipts for successfully delivered mail? DSNs are generic mail status notification format. A subset of that are bounces. Another subset is return receipt. A single DSN message may contain any notification, in fact, you can get a DSN mes

[Off-topic] Simplicity (Re: What's a DSN?)

1999-05-18 Thread Harald Hanche-Olsen
+ "Chris Garrigues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | Simplicity is good. Isn't there a quote along the line of "as | simple as possible, but no simpler"? Albert Einstein: "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." or "Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpl

Re: [Off-topic] Simplicity (Re: What's a DSN?)

1999-05-18 Thread Jos Backus
Maybe you mean "Non sunt entia multiplicanda praeter necessitatem." -- Sir William of Ockam (also known as "Ockam's razor")? -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ "Reliability means never _/ _/ _/ having to

Re: [Off-topic] Simplicity (Re: What's a DSN?)

1999-05-18 Thread Jos Backus
Grr. Sorry for the off-topic off-topic post, I should have _read_ Harald's post before replying... -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ "Reliability means never _/ _/ _/ having to say you're sorry." _/ _/_/_/