I guess you'd have to tell what would be "more normal-looking" to you. It sounds pretty normal to me.
Your list is sending mail to mailservers which for one reason or another are unable to complete the delivery. It might be temporary, like say the user is overquota, or permanent like the address is no longer valid. So the server for these members return the mail to you, the list owner and therefore the sender. Somewhere in the message it may tell you why it was unable to complete the delivery.
Or are you saying that you get a delivery failed message on messages that actually didn't fail? If I've missed your point, maybe you could make it clearer.
I'm not getting "regular" messages posted to the list. They all have the "Mail Delivery Subsystem" address on them, and when there is any content of body of the message, it follows a long list of header data. I'm not much of a pro when it comes to interpreting the header data, so I don't know why I am getting all the hash. Following is an example of what I am receiving. The only edit I made was to delete the e-mail address of the original list subscriber. That edit is enclosed in **[brackets]**: ***************************************** This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: tim@timdees.com SMTP error from remote mailer after MAIL FROM:<list-request@policewriter.com> SIZE=4894: host mail.timdees.com [216.55.150.6]: 573 list-request@policewriter.com unknown user account ------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------ Return-path: <list-request@policewriter.com> Received: from cedant4.abac.com ([66.175.0.5]) by smtpc.abac.com with esmtp id 1BZgDh-000DZo-0X for tim@timdees.com; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 18:25:05 -0700 Received: from cedant4.abac.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cedant4.abac.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5E1Nk03062445 for <tim@timdees.com>; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 18:23:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from list-request@policewriter.com) Received: (from policewriter@localhost) by cedant4.abac.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i5E1NkWZ062444 for tim@timdees.com; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 18:23:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from list-request@policewriter.com) X-Authentication-Warning: cedant4.abac.com: policewriter set sender to <list-request@policewriter.com> using -f Received: from cedant4.abac.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cedant4.abac.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5E1L803060861; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 18:21:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from list-request@policewriter.com) Received: (from policewriter@localhost) by cedant4.abac.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i5E1KWpI060578; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 18:20:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from list-request@policewriter.com) Resent-Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 18:20:32 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: cedant4.abac.com: policewriter set sender to list-request@policewriter.com using -f Old-Return-Path: <sdmauser@pacbell.net> Message-ID: <01da01c451ad$cb129040$6401a8c0@yournorvipbzf0> From: **[e-mail information deleted to preserve privacy of subscriber]** To: <list@policewriter.com> References: <005c01c451ad$2d405780$b4704b0c@pavilion> Subject: Re: [policewriter] Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 18:20:33 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_01D7_01C45173.1D7DD050" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-Spam-Score: 1.563 (HTML_50_60,HTML_MESSAGE,PRIORITY_NO_NAME) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 Resent-Message-ID: <WRWi1C.A.YyO.g1PzAB@cedant4.abac.com> Resent-From: list@policewriter.com X-Loop: list@policewriter.com List-Post: <mailto:list@policewriter.com> List-Help: <mailto:list-request@policewriter.com?subject=help> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:list-request@policewriter.com?subject=unsubscribe> Precedence: list Resent-Sender: list-request@policewriter.com Reply-To: list@policewriter.com X-Aplus-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Aplus-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Aplus-MailScanner-SpamCheck: spam, SpamAssassin (score=1.413, required 1, BAYES_50 0.00, HTML_50_60 0.10, HTML_MESSAGE 0.10, PRIORITY_NO_NAME 1.21) X-MailScanner-SpamScore: ! This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_01D7_01C45173.1D7DD050 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Tim, Suddenly I've begun getting emails from the group. What changed? I = thought I'd selected an option that wouldn't send me these list = conversations? Help. ************************************************************