Subject: Bouncing Mail

From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1993 15:07:42 -0700

Everytime I send mail to this list, I get MAILER-DAEMON@.local sending
 me:

While talking to muds01.mu.wvnet.edu:
>>> HELO .local
<<< 553 Local configuration error, hostname not recognized as local
554 <[email-masked]>... Service unavailable

Then it shows me the message I sent.  Am I doing something wrong or is this
 happening to everyone?

--- Dov Sherman
    [email-masked]

---

From: Roger Crew <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1993 15:58:08 -0700

>   554 <[email-masked]>... Service unavailable

If you see stuff like this, forward it to the list maintainer.  Whether it's a
bug at wvnet or a bug at xerox, the maintainer will have some idea what to do
(if time permits).
   
And while I'm at it, since we seem to have picked up a bunch of new subscribers, 
I'll insert, for the benefit of that (hopefully small) percentage that might
otherwise end up branding themselves as clueless idiots,

General rule #1: 
   For an Internet mailing list named "[email-masked]", the maintainer's address
   is usually "[email-masked]", so (as a COMPLETELY HYPOTHETICAL EXAMPLE)
   for THIS mailing list (i.e., "[email-masked]"), the maintainer's
   address would be (and, in fact, is)

	[email-masked]

   So (as a COMPLETELY HYPOTHETICAL EXAMPLE), if you, say, wanted to be 
   REMOVED from this list, you should send mail to

	[email-masked]
   
   Once again, that's

	[email-masked]

   Save this message if you think you might have trouble remembering.
   
Friendly warning #1:
   If you send stuff that should be going to the list maintainer to the 
   ENTIRE list, you run the risk of severely annoying lots of random people.
   You may as well just send a "Hi! I'm a clueless idiot" message to the 
   entire list.

Apologies to those of you who aren't clueless idiots.

--
Roger Crew
Internet:   [email-masked]
LambdaMOO:  Rog