Date   : Thu, 17 Feb 1983 00:03:00 EST
From   : Richard P. Wilkes <RICK@mit-mc.arpa>
Subject: Failed mail messages

Anyone who has ever sent a message to a large list that is not
on a digest (such as Info-Micro or -CPM) knows that for the
next week or so, he can expect to get ad infinitum FAILED
message notes clogging up his mailbox.

This is really a burden and does discourage one from sending
if your mailbox isn't virtually boundless.

A recent message of mine to the lists received over 25 failure
notices during a week period.  The message was several hundred
lines long, and these "helpful" mailers always seem to return
a copy of the message (or at least a good chunk of it).

My question is this:  why not add an option in the mail header
to simply dump the message into the communications wasteland
if it is undeliverable.  Something like the NOQC option at MIT
to eliminate queued notifications.  It would CERTAINLY cut
down on net traffic, especiialy on Usenet/phonenet/et al.

I don't know where this should be proposed, but it certainly
should be done sometime SOON.  Perhaps someone out there who
knows the proper channels could pass the idea along...

I can't wait for the rejections from THIS message... 

Trying to be patient. -r