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Re: non-english bounce

kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) Sun, 13 August 2000 12:57 UTC

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perry@wasabisystems.com (Perry E. Metzger)  wrote on 11.08.00 in <878zu3hi9m.fsf@snark.piermont.com>:

> [Slightly off topic, but...]
>
> I finally received the inevitable -- a bounce message in a chinese
> character set. Luckily, it was simple enough to figure out what it
> meant, but I'm sure that in the future, with internationalized DNS and
> message localization, it will become impossible for postmasters to
> figure out what it is that various machines around the world are
> trying to tell them.

It's been some years since my fight with some italian machine spamming me  
with bounces, obviusly because of some mailing list - I never managed to  
find out which one.

Essentially, there was an Italian message that Joe User was not available,  
and *nothing* (like subject, message id, a bit of the body text, I'm not  
even dreaming about real headers) that would have allowed me to find out  
what triggered it. A lengthy dialogue with the postmaster in question was  
completely useless, as he didn't seem to understand that I had no idea,  
*and* no way to find out, what was causing the problem, and instead seemed  
to think I manually sent the mail to this guy I had never heard of.

Gah.

MfG Kai

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