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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 8:42:35 EST
- From: Dennis G. Rears <drears@pica.army.mil>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: MCI Mail Continues to Dump Incoming Mail
- Message-ID: <telecom12.908.14@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 908, Message 14 of 18
- Lines: 41
-
- Rich Greenberg asked:
-
- > Are there so many MCI Mail addressees that sending each of them an
- > individual copy would be impractical? If not, and your software can
- > be adjusted to do this, the initial headache of setting it up would
- > eliminate future headaches. Just dump the bounces.
-
- > [Moderator's Note: Your proposal would cause a lot of extra work for
- > everyone in the middle ... it *would* work, but one of the reasons for
- > the standards as they are written now is to avoid such extra handling
- > of mail and the requisite bandwidth. I have several dozen subscribers
- > on the mailing list at mcimail.com. I won't do it as you suggest. PAT]
-
- I have to agree with Pat. I have 18 addresses with mcimail. I
- don't have the time to set up something special for mcimail and
- compuserve. Unlike Pat, I don't even bother trying to send the
- messages separately. People who do not run a list have no idea how
- much time we spend on it. Even when everything is going right I spend
- at least five hours a week (my time not the company) time on my
- Digest. Pat spends at least two hours a night. We shouldn't have to
- waste time on it, when the company that is being *PAID* to run a mail
- system doesn't do it right.
-
- Incidently most of the Moderators on the Moderator's mail list agree
- with Pat and I on this issue.
-
-
- dennis
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: Dennis Rears is the Moderator of the privacy forum
- which had its origins here in telecom a couple years ago and split off
- when the eternal discussion on Caller-ID got out of control. I've had
- others suggest sending MCI readers individual copies rather than a
- single copy with a mutiple-address (blind cc) envelope; my answer is
- still the same. Many of the Moderators will agree: we have bent over
- backwards to accomodate the commercial sites and their idiosyncracies;
- I do not intend to impose on eecs.nwu.edu in this way; nor will I
- impose on Reston (the gateway). PAT]
-
-