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- From: lumensa@lub001.lamar.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
- Subject: Re: Email trivia
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.211759.1891@lub001.lamar.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 21:17:59 +1700
- References: <scs.724014455@hela.iti.org>
- Organization: Lamar University - Beaumont
- Lines: 21
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- In article <scs.724014455@hela.iti.org>, scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons) writes:
- > The last couple of months a bounce has come back from Compuserve for
- > one of the SEMiSLUG addresses:
- >
- > From: Electronic Postmaster <POSTMASTER@CompuServe.COM>
- > To: <scs@wotan.iti.org>
- > Subject: Undeliverable message
- >
- > Re: ? EMDRPD - Mail Delivery Failure. Refused -- Postage Due.
-
- > XXXXX,XXXX was the Compuserve account. Seems like a pretty reasonable
- > way of dealing with folks who don't pay their bills -- return the mail
- > to sender. I approve.
-
- It's not quite that simple. Compu$erve terminates the account users who
- don't pay. Compu$erve charges EXTRA to deliver any mail from their
- Internet gateway, and a Compu$erve user has the option to refuse to
- accept any messages for which they would have to pay the surcharge in
- addition to the usual connect time fees, etc. This is the reason for
- the "postage due" notice. Not that the user hasn't paid his bill.
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