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  2. Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!emory!gatech!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU!gaia.ucs.orst.edu!skyking!stanley
  3. From: stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers,comp.mail.misc
  5. Subject: Re: Return-Receipt-To & forwarding...
  6. Message-ID: <1hv93pINNc85@gaia.ucs.orst.edu>
  7. Date: 31 Dec 92 17:02:49 GMT
  8. References: <19921225.001@erik.naggum.no> <sdorner-271292095054@0.0.0.0> <davecb.725771350@yorku.ca>
  9. Organization: Oregon State University, College of Oceanography
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  11. NNTP-Posting-Host: skyking.oce.orst.edu
  12.  
  13. In article <davecb.725771350@yorku.ca> davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown) writes:
  14. > I already **know** it was delivered: I didn't get a ``599 mail undeliverable:
  15. >recipient had moved to mars'' message.
  16.  
  17. The only thing you know when you don't get a "599 ..." response is that
  18. you didn't get a "599 ..." response. You don't even know that such a
  19. response wasn't sent, only that you didn't get one. You certainly don't
  20. know that the mail you sent was delivered.
  21.