"Ian Douglas" alug@k1ngph1cher.com writes:
Richard Kettlewell wrote:
Sending software that immediately reports such errors to the user, rather than retrying at a reasonable interval, is broken.
??? Sorry Richard but you have confused me. I was receiving this error message even though my messages were in fact reaching the recipient (the ALUG list). If my mail program had acted on this error message (which had been incorrectly generated by NTL)
It was correctly generated by NTL, and incorrectly reported to you.
by assuming it to be correct and continually retried, as you suggest, then surely the ALUG list would have been flooded with dozens of copies of my messages as my mail prog continually resent it.
What probably happened was that your software tried once, got a temporary error which it reported to you (incorrectly), tried again automatically (correctly), and this time succeeded.