On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Peter L. Peres wrote:

> Look, email travels by TCP. TCP does not lose anything, except time.
> Mail servers that determine unattainable addressees complain to their
> maintainers. If you would be right, then Dale would be submerged in
> complaints from listserv. He does not seem to be ...

TCP is error-free, but mail servers are not.  Obscure and old mail servers
especially so.  The list is hosted on an IBM VM system running God knows
how old an IBM SMTP service.  It's not unusual for such a system to
occasionally misroute or drop a message, especially given the often
oddball configuration and headers caused by the wide diversity of clients
sending mail to this list.

All I get are *delivery* error notices; the server admin will see the
system error messages, but we really don't want to cause him any more work
than necessary.

Dale

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