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List:       suse-linux-uk-schools
Subject:    Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] OT: List admin - bounces and  rejects
From:       "Mark Evans" <mpe () st-peters-high ! devon ! sch ! uk>
Date:       2000-09-27 17:56:59
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> kevin.taylor@powerconv.alstom.com said:
> > Is it possible to stop bounced or rejected emails being sent back to
> > the original senders ?  This does not happen (as far as I am aware) on
> > any other mailing lists I am part of. 
> 
> This only happens when the rejecting sight is so clueless and RFCs 
> non-compliant that they send bounces to the header from address rather 
> than the envelope sender address.  This is *wrong* wrong wrong wrong!!!!

Even though the RFC's are clear some software writers have great trouble
following them. RFC974 appears to especially confuse, sometimes getting 
completly ignored, sometimes caching DNS data, because the writer thinks
it will make things more efficent. (N.B. the latter is best left to
nameservers, since they actually take note of the "TTL" fields.)

(Though in one case ignoring RFC's is probably deliberate, since it's
apparently the policy of a certain American company.)

> However it also looks as though some schools are using very dumb very 

(Obvious question, which is dumbest in this situation, the software,
the school or the individual who made the decision to use it. Though saying
that the reports on both the Becta and NGFL websites on this kind of software
contain a large proportion of promotional material from the software 
companies.)

> over sensitive filtering, and its almost worth starting a thread about 
> a county just north-east of london and a seaside (!) resort in the 
> hull/lincoln region.

Except that this is such an old issue that England winning the world
cup would probably be ON topic :)


-- 
Mark Evans
St. Peter's CofE High School
Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109
Fax: +44 1392 204763


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