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Subject: 
Interesting bit of news/mail gateway trivia..
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Sun, 21 Feb 1999 14:02:14 GMT
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I just discovered something else that stems from the setting of the
From: field to the posters name, rather than lugnet.com, for the
news/mail gateway to the robotics list:

I posted something in lugnet.robotics, and the postmaster for some
subscriber or other, just mailed _me_ the delivery failure, rather
than the mailing list or lugnet.

I'll include all headers below.

--------------
ubject:
        Delivery failure
   Date:
        Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:01:05 +0900
   From:
        postmaster@micron.at.home
     To:
        jasper@janssen.dynip.com




Your message has encountered delivery problems
to local user atani.
(Originally addressed to atani@mail.at.home)

User's mailbox is full

Your message reads (in part):

Received: from naa.att.ne.jp (unverified [192.168.1.6]) by
micron.at.home
(EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id <B0000039077@micron.at.home>;
Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:01:05 +0900
Received: from naa.att.ne.jp
        by digital.at.home (fetchmail-4.2.9 POP3 run by atani)
        for <atani@mail.at.home> (single-drop); Sat Feb 20 23:01:10
1999
Received: from ns.crynwr.com (ns.crynwr.com [192.203.178.14]) by
naa.att.ne.jp (8.8.8+Spin/3.6Wbeta7-CONS(11/18/98)) id JAA13461; Sat,
20 Feb 1999 09:11:47 +0900 (JST)
Received: (qmail 11919 invoked by alias); 20 Feb 1999 00:11:35 -0000
Mailing-List: contact lego-robotics-help@crynwr.com; run by ezmlm
Delivered-To: mailing list lego-robotics@crynwr.com
Received: (qmail 11896 invoked by uid 0); 20 Feb 1999 00:11:34 -0000
Received: from lugnet.com (209.68.63.236)
  by pdam.crynwr.com with SMTP; 20 Feb 1999 00:11:34 -0000
Received: by lugnet.com (8.9.0/8.6.12) id TAA18616; Fri, 19 Feb 1999
19:11:01 -0500 (EST)
X-Envelope-To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com
X-Loop: lugnet.robotics@lugnet.com
X-Message-Archive:
http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.robotics:3907
From: jasper@janssen.dynip.com (Jasper Janssen)
X-Real-Life-Name: Jasper Janssen
Sender: news-gateway@lugnet.com
To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com
Subject: Re: Polarity Switch
Posted-Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 00:10:13 GMT
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 00:10:13 GMT
Organization: netherlands
Message-ID: <36defd13.136718024@lugnet.com>
References: <F7F6po.2Ir@lugnet.com>
<19990219211604.24840.qmail@desk.crynwr.com> <F7F7r9.40K@lugnet.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
MIME-Version: 1.0
Precedence: list
X-UIDL: 3b38934b3394f58cc749dd2ccfc6f2c3

On Fri, 19 Feb 1999 21:30:45 GMT, "Dave Forrest" <davef@shmoopie.com>
wrote:

<actual message snipped for clarity>
--
Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics



Message has 1 Reply:
  Re: Interesting bit of news/mail gateway trivia..
 
(...) Bummer, I was afraid this might happen someday. Not only did the mailserver dishonor the Errors-To header, it looks like it also deleted it when it bounced a copy of the message it back to you! :=( On all outgoing news-by-mail messages, the (...) (26 years ago, 21-Feb-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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