From: Eric Marsden <emarsden@mail.dotcom.fr>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Header (rfc) question
Date: 14 Oct 1999 09:51:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wzi3dvel6r6.fsf@mail.dotcom.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Harry Putnam's message of "13 Oct 1999 20:08:05 -0700"
These are VERP, or Variable Envelope Response Paths, invented by Dan
Bernstein, author of qmail. They allow mailing list software to
determine which message and which subscriber a bounce corresponds to,
allowing the automation of bounce handling (a godsend!).
<URL:ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/proto/verp.txt>
--
Eric Marsden
It's elephants all the way down
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1999-10-14 3:08 Harry Putnam
1999-10-14 3:23 ` Karl Kleinpaste
1999-10-14 7:51 ` Eric Marsden [this message]
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