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...

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.

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?

How about autmation and english?

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