2 delivery failures for mail sent to the list

[Nigel Henry]

On Tuesday 19 September 2006 20:02, Charles A Edwards wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:56:20 +0200
>
> Nigel Henry wrote:
> > All "@" have been changed to "(at)" by me.
> >
> > Any suggestions as to what is going on here?
>
> These happens on every mailing list.
>
> In effect when you post to a list you or sending an email
> to Every member of that list.
> If, for whatever reason, delivery fails for any member
> you will receive a undeliverable notice for each failure.
>
> Most, including I, set-up a filter rule in their MUA
> to not be bothered by these notices.
>
>
>     Charles

Thanks for that Charles. It doesn't make much sense though. I'm on some quite 
high volume mailing lists, and this sort of thing doesn't happen. I post to 
the list, get a confirmation in my inbox that the posting has been received 
by the list, and thats that. The only time I've had mail returned is when I 
used to use the "reply all" function on Kmail. Some folks don't receive mail 
sCC'd to them, so it ends up being returned. 

This is all a bit academic, but bear with me please.

I send a post to a mailing list, and I know my ISP using this address has some 
problems (they seem to be favourable to spam). Lets say there is no blocking 
of posting to the list. My post arrives at the list. My part in this 
procedure is now at an end. The list now sends me a confirmation, which I 
receive in my inbox that the post has been received by the list. The list, 
not me, also sends out to all those subscribed to the list an e-mail of the 
posting I have made to the list. So far so good, but quite why I, as the 
sender of the post to the list should be notified that certain persons 
subscribed to the list are unaccessable (for whatever reason) doesn't make 
sense. 

Perhaps the mailing list needs fixing. After all, this is a list to to with 
filtering spam, and each time I post to the list I am getting 2 emails back, 
which are to all intents and purposes spam, and contributing to bandwidth 
wastage.

Enough of the rant. I don't post to the list much, so if it can't be fixed, 
I'll put up with it.

Thanks again for the reply.

It will be interesting to see if I get another 2 undeliverables when I send 
this reply. lol.

Nigel.