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From: Friedrich@cup.portal.com (Frank G Kienast)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Bounce Notification Reliability
Message-ID: <12289@cup.portal.com>
Date: 8 Dec 88 01:15:17 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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About how reliable is is the "nondelivery notification" on network mail, 
and about how long does it take?

I recently tried to contact a friend at the University of Virginia.  I 
sent the letter to my friend's id @virginia.edu.  He never received the 
mail, and I never got it back.  

As a test, I tried sending letters to the following:
xyz@bogus.edu
xyz66@virginia.edu

Now I assume these letters should have bounced rather quickly, but it 
has been four days and I havn't seen any trace of them.  Is this normal, 
or is it just the system I'm on (Portal)?  I know that in the past I 
have received mail responses to my Usenet postings (though I guess I 
have no way of knowing if I have received all or even the majority of 
the letters that were actually sent).

Friedrich@cup.portal.com