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06/19/2001 "best bounce yet"

In these days of lay-offs I get a lot of mail bounces.

They usually look like this (address changed to protect the innocent)

Your message
did not reach the following recipient(s):

c=US;a= ;p=Breakaway;o=NYDataCenter;dda:SMTP=blurp@blurp.com; on Tue,
19 Jun 2001 17:55:17 -0400
The recipient name is not recognized
The MTS-ID of the original message is: c=US;a=
;p=Breakaway;l=EXGATE-NY0106192155M8FTW93F
MSEXCH:IMS:Breakaway:NYDataCenter:EXGATE-NY 0 (000C05A6) Unknown
Recipient

This is the first one I've ever seen in English.

Hello,

Thank you for your message addressed to an Organic, Inc. address. The addressee is no longer working with Organic. Your message is being returned to you unopened and unread. We encourage you to reroute your message to another Organic employee.

http://www.organic.com/

No traceroute nonesense, no extraneous machine code...

, from oldest to newest:

Nice to have something readable, but do they actually mention the email address in question, or leave it up to you to figure out. Too bad if you have a dozen or more organic.com email addresses on file.

Plain english isn't entirely useful though -- my mailing lists generate so many bounces every day (many temporary) that I feed the lot into a bounce processor - it figures out by the codes if the bounce is permanent or transient, and which email address. Automation is good.

Posted by eric @ 06/20/2001 01:52 AM pst

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Although it's definitely better than the first example they should also provide a generic e-mail address where you can ask info from, or they expect you to go to their site and search for their employees e-mail addresses?

Posted by gillo @ 06/20/2001 03:31 AM pst

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How about autmation and english?

Posted by christina @ 06/20/2001 11:27 AM pst

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