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- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 13:14:49 -0600
- From: TELECOM Moderator <telecom@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: MCI Mail Continues to Dump Incoming Mail
- Message-ID: <telecom12.901.1@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
- Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
- X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
- X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu
- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 901, Message 1 of 5
- Lines: 34
-
- The problem I have mentioned here in the past continues unabated. MCI
- Mail is still continuing to dump large amounts of mail from the
- Internet if they have any problem at all with a single address on the
- envelope.
-
- I send dozens of copies of each issue of TELECOM Digest to subscribers
- at MCI Mail. If so much as one address is incorrect (because the
- person quits the service or changes addresses there without telling
- me) then MCI Mail *refuses* to deliver any of the copies to anyone,
- and dumps it all out.
-
- Every other site I send to -- thousands of them -- can deal with
- multiple addresses in the envelope, and an error in any one of the
- addresses. But MCI Mail persists in doing things their way rather than
- following the standards set up for email.
-
- Each time I become aware of MCI Mail dumping an entire issue of the
- Digest undelivered to their subscribers I have to make a separate
- mailing list up just for them and remail that issue. This is happening
- now about once or twice a week -- it used to be not more than once
- every month or two. I've had technical people from MCI Mail say they
- were going to look into it ... but that is as far as it has gotten. If
- this cannot be corrected soon, then my response will be to delete
- mcimail from the telecom mailing list and suggest that those
- subscribers find some other site to receive the Digest.
-
- If this is happening to me this often, I wonder how often other
- Digests or mailing lists with readers at MCI Mail are getting bouces?
-
-
- Patrick Townson
- TELECOM Moderator
-
-