Re: [Phys-l] "excessive bounces"

[Jack Uretsky <jlu@hep.anl.gov>]

Hi all-
	My mail program, used as a Linux client, is "Pine" or ("Alpine") 
from U. Wash.  One of the options it gives me, when reading mail, is 
"bounce".  I'm not sure what it does, I've never used it, nor have I 
looked for information on it.
		Thre mus be other Pine users out there.
				Regards,
					Jack

"Trust me.  I have a lot of experience at this."
		General Custer's unremembered message to his men,
		just before leading them into the Little Big Horn Valley




On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, John Clement wrote:

> Obvious isn't it, but there are some serious questions.
>
> Do we know if anyone has been cut off due to excessive bounces?
>
> We don't know what a "bounce" is.  Is it well defined a technical term?
>
> Since most mail is delivered point to point from the PHYS-L server to the
> ISP for the recipient, an ISP unavailable just causes the server to try and
> try again.  This is not technically a bounce, but it could be what is being
> called a bounce once the internal try time has been exhausted and the
> message is aborted.  Of course this information is suppressed by the list so
> that the general users are not bothered by this information.  However it
> should go to a special "list postmaster" account, so the managers can see
> what is going on.
>
> Or it could be messages which are sent back such as mailbox full.  Or it
> could be out of office reply messages.  Or the ISP could be rejecting the
> message during the initial connection.  Again, the list should direct such
> replies to a postmaster account, but out of office replies still sometimes
> get through.  Since the there are often no standards which can be used for
> filtering things like out of office replies, it may be difficult to suppress
> them.  The web is very anarchic, and most commonly used protocols are not
> 100% safe.
>
> Has anyone successfully used the reply URL to reinstate an account?
>
> Incidentally sometimes messages from this list do go astray.  I have
> sometimes received missives which obviously started in the middle of a
> topic, and could never find the antecedents.
>
> John M. Clement
> Houston, TX
>
> > > Just a test to see if anyone has been cut off from this list by excessive
> > bounces.
> >
> >
> >
> > > Would anyone who has gotten the excessive bounces and is no longer
> > receiving missives from this >list please reply.
> >
> >
> >
> > > John M. Clement
> >
> > > Houston, TX
> >
> > Cute.  Anyone who can't hear me, please raise your hand.  :)
>
>
>
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