From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/25900 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Marsden Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Header (rfc) question Date: 14 Oct 1999 09:51:41 +0200 Organization: LAAS-CNRS http://www.laas.fr/ Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035163208 16583 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:20:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:20:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA19017 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 03:57:24 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id CAB29995; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 02:53:42 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 14 Oct 1999 02:53:56 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA09034 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 02:53:45 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from laas.laas.fr (root@laas.laas.fr [140.93.0.15]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA19007 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 03:51:49 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from dukas.laas.fr (dukas [140.93.21.58]) by laas.laas.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA08020; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 09:51:42 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: (from emarsden@localhost) by dukas.laas.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA22896; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 09:51:41 +0200 (MET DST) Original-To: Harry Putnam X-Eric-Conspiracy: there is no conspiracy X-Attribution: ecm X-URL: http://www.chez.com/emarsden/ In-Reply-To: Harry Putnam's message of "13 Oct 1999 20:08:05 -0700" Original-Lines: 10 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.4 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25900 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25900 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!). -- Eric Marsden It's elephants all the way down