Miata Mailing List: June 1992, Message #59
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   From: (none)
Subject: Re: Test Response
   Date: (none)

> Herb Samuels  writes:
> >I have posted several messages and have had them returned to me the following
> >day as undeliverable, not within 30 to 40 minutes if the address is wrong.  I
> >did not get any responses to my post about advancing the timing  to increase
> >the power at high RPMs. I sm not sure if this is because no one had an opinion
> >or that the mail message did not go through.  I am sending this to see if it
> >goes through.  Could someone respond and let me know if you received this
> >message.
> Actually this means that your message *did* get out.  If you got only one
> bounce then it might mean it didn't.  Since there are something like 100
> people on the Miata list odds are that at any time a certain number of
> machines will be down or unavailable and thus their mail will "bounce".
> Add to that the fact that several of the people on the list are probably
> students and thus are away for the summer (and their accounts de-activated)
> and a few bounces are perfectly normal.

Actually, you should not see those message bounces because the outgoing mail
has an envelope from address that should point all failures back to me (the
list maintainer).  Unfortunately this is not an ideal world and some mailers
insist on sending failures to the header From: address.  Ah well...

You should get a copy of your message back as part of the distribution
process to confirm that it was recieved and distributed (if you're on the
list anyway).

-Andy (Miata list maintainer)

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