On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 13:16, Sophia Grimm wrote:
My German's a little rusty, but it looks like this person doesn't want to get mail from me.
Unfortunately, that's not the problem. The software that runs this list is different than most other mail software. It puts the *poster* e-mail address as the address to reply to instead of its own. This means that any subscribers who are bouncing messages or running an auto-responder are flooding list contributers with bogus e-mail. It gets a lot worse when someone's got a transient delivery error... those can easily generate a dozen or more bounce messages per post. This is something of a religious issue in the sysadmin community and not likely to get resolved on this list. There are several ways the problem *could* be fixed but none are likely to be comprehensive or work to everyone's satisfaction. So this is what we've got. FWIW, Dylan