Re: "refuse attachment" message

["Ken W Sinclair" <kensin66@sk.sympatico.ca>]

Hi John
I have attached the strange messages I received.(four)
I think you spend a tremendous amount of time and energy on this project.
Ken W Sinclair

----- Original Message -----
From: John S. Quarterman <jsq@mids.org>
To: <sinclair@jump.net>
Sent: Friday, May 21, 1999 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: "refuse attachment" message


 There is no special screening being applied to the Sinclair discussion list
 other than the usual checks to see if the poster is a member of the list
 (to keep out spam), and for text that could cause administrative problems
 (to block malicious software attacks).  Attachments aren't relevant to
either
 of those kinds of checks.  People send attachments rather frequently, and
 nothing unusual happens to them.

 If you can send me the bounce message you saw, I may be able to decipher
 exactly what problem you saw and where.  In general, whenever you see a
 bounce message (an error message from a mailsystem, keep it so you can
 forward it to someone who can help.

 Meanwhile, remember that a mailing list is like a paper newsletter in some
 ways.  Just because you get a single copy of a paper newsletter returned
 doesn't mean there is anything wrong with your local Post Office.  The
 copy may have gotten returned because that particular addressee moved,
 or there is a problem in a Post Office somewhere down the road, etc.
 Usually you'll see something stamped or written on the returned copy,
 such as "addressee unknown" or "moved with no forwarding address".

 Similarly, just because you see a bounce message from some mailer out
 there in the Internet doesn't mean there is anything wrong with the list.
 Some addressee may have moved, or there may be a problem somewhere else.
 Some particular addressee may have even programmed their local mailbox
 to do something fancy, or their employer or their ISP may have done so.
 The bounce message usually contains some indication of what the problem is,
 such as "unknown user" or "message too large" or the like.

 Most bounce messages resulting from messages that have been distributed
 by the list software should come back to me.  A lot of them do, believe me.
 However, there is buggy software here and there in the Internet that
 does not follow the standard protocols and that does not return errors
 to where they should go.
 Once again, if you can forward the actual bounce message, it will help
 a lot in finding out what happened.

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