Subject: Mailing list etiquette

From: Judy Anderson <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1993 12:10:03 -0700

Folks: Nearly every time you send to a mailing list that contains
several hundred recipients (such as moo-cows), some of those addresses
will be broken, and you will get an error message back.

Please do not resend your message just because you got an error
message back.  Look carefully at that message: it *will* tell you who
failed (albeit crytically).  As long as it was not
"[email-masked]" that failed, then your message got through.  The
thing to do is wait a day or two and see if *you* receive your own
message.  If you do, then it got through to hundreds of people even
though you got a couple of failure.  Even then, if you don't get a
copy of your own message, it's better to ask a friend who's on the
list if e got the message instead of broadcasting it to the list
again.

If you want to be helpful, you can forward those failure messages to
*the list owner* (that's [email-masked] in this case), who
can hopefully correct the problem in the list itself.

Judy Anderson yclept yduJ   [email-masked]  'yduJ' rhymes with 'fudge'
    [ LambdaMOO is lambda.parc.xerox.com 8888 / 13.2.116.36 8888 ]
       Join the League for Programming Freedom, [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1993 12:12:57 -0700

My apologies. The error was not, however an "I couldn't find this user" error,
it was alpha.xerox.com saying something like there were illegal characters in
the From: line. The message made it sound like the whole thing had bombed out.
I resent the message, not so much to make sure my mail got out as to see if
this was a recurring problem, or just a one-time glitch. As it turns out, the
problem happened again, and I'm trying to find out what caused it.

Again, sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.
====Rob.