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To: djb@koobera.math.uic.edu (D. J. Bernstein)
cc: drums@cs.utk.edu
Subject: Re: Issues summary web page 
In-reply-to: Your message of "22 Mar 1996 18:52:17 GMT."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 14:39:50 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>


D. J. Bernstein writes:
> > In fact, I certainly wish bounce messages would contain a reference to the 
 
> > bounced message in their header;
> 
> You mean, a References line with the original Message-ID? I wouldn't do
> that, because it requires putting an 822 parser into the MTA, where it
> doesn't belong.
> 
> Machine-readable bounce messages are a good thing, certainly. I still
> don't see why they should have their own Message-IDs.

Because bounce messages bounce?

Because people want to trace bounce messages?

Because they are very cheap to generate and very useful?

Perry