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Message no. 1
From: Avenger <Avenger@*******.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: [OT] Resent mail
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 03:36:07 +0100
This got me to thinking...

(quote)
Your message could not be delivered for the following reason:

Mailbox 100540.260 is currently full.
Please resend your message at a later time.

--- Returned message ---

Sender: owner-shadowrn@********.ITRIBE.NET
(unquote)

I've had several messages bounced back to me, from Compuserve, via
Shadowrn. I'm kinda curious to see if anyone else has had this sort of
thing, or if it's rather unique.

Especially seeing as I'm not using compuserve, and as far as I know,
neither is this list.


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Message no. 2
From: Jaymz <justin@******.NET>
Subject: Re: [OT] Resent mail
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 22:05:36 -0500
it means that someone subscribed to the mailing list and is a compuserve
member with their mailbox full, probably one of the people that went to Gen
Con and forgot to set NOMAIL

At 03:36 AM 8/12/97 +0100, you wrote:
#This got me to thinking...
#
#(quote)
#Your message could not be delivered for the following reason:
#
#Mailbox 100540.260 is currently full.
#Please resend your message at a later time.
#
#--- Returned message ---
#
#Sender: owner-shadowrn@********.ITRIBE.NET
#(unquote)
#
#I've had several messages bounced back to me, from Compuserve, via
#Shadowrn. I'm kinda curious to see if anyone else has had this sort of
#thing, or if it's rather unique.
#
#Especially seeing as I'm not using compuserve, and as far as I know,
#neither is this list.
#
#
#--
# __ \ | \ __
# | | _` | __| | / _ \ \ / _ \ __ \ _` | _ \ __|
# | | ( | | < ___ \ \ / __/ | | ( | __/ |
# ____/ \__,_|_| _|\_\ _/ _\ \_/ \___|_| _|\__, |\___|_|
#A Dark Shadow in a Dark World |___/
#Web page at: http://www.shalako.demon.co.uk
#
#
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Message no. 3
From: The Swordsman <swordman@******.NET>
Subject: Re: [OT] Resent mail
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 22:12:33 -0500
Avenger wrote:
>
> This got me to thinking...
>
> (quote)
> Your message could not be delivered for the following reason:
>
> Mailbox 100540.260 is currently full.
> Please resend your message at a later time.
>
> --- Returned message ---
>
> Sender: owner-shadowrn@********.ITRIBE.NET
> (unquote)
>
> I've had several messages bounced back to me, from Compuserve, via
> Shadowrn. I'm kinda curious to see if anyone else has had this sort of
> thing, or if it's rather unique.
>
> Especially seeing as I'm not using compuserve, and as far as I know,
> neither is this list.

I've had this same problem


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Message no. 4
From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: [OT] Resent mail
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 23:50:22 -0400
At 10:05 PM 8/11/97 -0500, Jaymz wrote these timeless words:
>it means that someone subscribed to the mailing list and is a compuserve
>member with their mailbox full, probably one of the people that went to Gen
>Con and forgot to set NOMAIL
>
Yeah, but that type of mail should NOT be going to the private sender.
Error messages should, at most, go only to the list admins, not to the
original poster.

Bull
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Message no. 5
From: "Steven A. Collins" <scollins@**.UML.EDU>
Subject: Re: [OT] Resent mail
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 00:23:34 -0400
On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Avenger wrote:

->This got me to thinking...
->
->(quote)
->Your message could not be delivered for the following reason:
->
->Mailbox 100540.260 is currently full.
->Please resend your message at a later time.
->
->--- Returned message ---
->
->Sender: owner-shadowrn@********.ITRIBE.NET
->(unquote)
->
->I've had several messages bounced back to me, from Compuserve, via
->Shadowrn. I'm kinda curious to see if anyone else has had this sort of
->thing, or if it's rather unique.
->
->Especially seeing as I'm not using compuserve, and as far as I know,
->neither is this list.

Yup I've had the same thing happen a few times today. My guess would
be that someone on the list who has a compuserve account went to
gencon and didn't set nomail. Now his mailbox is full so messages from
the list are bouncing. What confuses me is why they are bouncing to us
and not to the list. Thank bog they are not or else we'd have a
geometric expansion of bounced messages to the list from this account,
but I'm not sure how compuserve knows to send the bounces to us and
not to the list.
Message no. 6
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: [OT] Resent mail
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 13:08:13 +0100
Avenger said on 3:36/12 Aug 97...

> I've had several messages bounced back to me, from Compuserve, via
> Shadowrn. I'm kinda curious to see if anyone else has had this sort of
> thing, or if it's rather unique.
>
> Especially seeing as I'm not using compuserve, and as far as I know,
> neither is this list.

I've had the same thing, and I think what happens is that someone on
CompuServe subscribed to the list and has thereby filled up his/her
mailbox (that's what the messages gave as a reason for bouncing the
originals). When new ShadowRN mail arrives, CompuServe looks in the
message to see where it comes from, finds the personal address of the
original sender, and sends it back there.

Mark, could you unsubscribe 100540.260@**********.com from the list for
this reason?

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Message no. 7
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: [OT] Resent mail
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 13:21:08 +0100
|I've had several messages bounced back to me, from Compuserve, via
|Shadowrn. I'm kinda curious to see if anyone else has had this sort of
|thing, or if it's rather unique.
|
|Especially seeing as I'm not using compuserve, and as far as I know,
|neither is this list.

This reminds me of the time about 1 1/2 years ago.
The list got flooded by an e-mail saying "The mail could not be delivered".

Each time the list received a mail, it sent it out to all recipients. One of
the recipients bounced the mail back to the list. The list then sent THIS
mail to all recipients, which bounced it back to the list....

At one point, I was on like and deleting about 20 messages a minute.

Mailloops are nasty things.

I didn't see the one you got though... Strange....

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Message no. 8
From: Jaymz <justin@******.NET>
Subject: Re: [OT] Resent mail
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 08:33:33 -0500
At 12:23 AM 8/12/97 -0400, you wrote:
#On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Avenger wrote:
#Yup I've had the same thing happen a few times today. My guess would
#be that someone on the list who has a compuserve account went to
#gencon and didn't set nomail. Now his mailbox is full so messages from
#the list are bouncing. What confuses me is why they are bouncing to us
#and not to the list. Thank bog they are not or else we'd have a
#geometric expansion of bounced messages to the list from this account,
#but I'm not sure how compuserve knows to send the bounces to us and
#not to the list.
#
My guess is that they use the From: header

that's what a lotta mailers use

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