Hello Everyone,
>Welcome to the world of mailing lists.
>
>Yes, Avnet can delete the guy off the list and I am sure somebody has already
>asked them to do that.
Yes, of course he has been deleted.
>The reason we all get the bounced mail is that the receiving mail system can
>only send the failed delivery message to the sender, in this case
>europa@avnet.co.uk. Because europa@avnet.co.uk is set up as a mail list
>server it automatically sends the failed message to everyone of us on the
>list!
Most ISPs have their sendmail software set to return bounced mail to the
owner of the list. I receive dozens of these messages every day, address to
owner-europa, etc. This one erroneously sent the reply as Tony says, back
to the list - aargh....!
>For some real fun, from my list of how to drive internet users mad, you
>should get two mail sites that do this to each other repeatedly. Then the non
>delivery messages go up exponentially and eventually kill both mail systems.
>Keeps sysadmins busy for hours when that happens :-)
Sorry if this drove all of you crazy.
Moira
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