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From: IN%"postmaster@gu*.ac*.ge*.ed*" "PMDF Mail Server" 18-MAY-1994 15:19:25.75 To: IN%"KEITHK@gu*.ac*.ge*.ed*" CC: Subj: Undeliverable mail: SMTP delivery failure Return-path: <> Received: from guvax.acc.georgetown.edu by guvax.acc.georgetown.edu (PMDF V4.2-10 #5850) id <01HCHMEA2KF48ZE49P@gu*.ac*.ge*.ed*>; Wed, 18 May 1994 15:18:25 EDT Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 15:18:24 -0400 (EDT) From: PMDF Mail Server <postmaster@gu*.ac*.ge*.ed*> Subject: Undeliverable mail: SMTP delivery failure To: KEITHK@gu*.ac*.ge*.ed* Message-id: <01HCHMEA2KF68ZE49P@gu*.ac*.ge*.ed*> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="Boundary (ID xGEEARZVdVkyBD3ls/hN4g)" --Boundary (ID xGEEARZVdVkyBD3ls/hN4g) Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII The message could not be delivered to: techdiver@opal.com: Remote system's reason for rejecting: <techdiver@opal.com>... User unknown --Boundary (ID xGEEARZVdVkyBD3ls/hN4g) Content-type: MESSAGE/RFC822 Received: from guvax.acc.georgetown.edu by guvax.acc.georgetown.edu (PMDF V4.2-11 #5850) id <01HCHM02Y42C8WYA24@gu*.ac*.ge*.ed*>; Wed, 18 May 1994 15:17:53 EDT Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 15:17:53 -0400 (EDT) From: KEITHK@gu*.ac*.ge*.ed* Subject: Mailing List SNAFU To: techdiver@opal.com Message-id: <01HCHM02Y42E8WYA24@gu*.ac*.ge*.ed*> X-VMS-To: IN%"techdiver@opal.com" MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT No doubt you have all experienced a recent problem with the mailing list. I recently received multiple copies of some mail causing a disk quota overrun, and JR Oldroyd's post makes it clear that I was not the only one. After checking around I believe I have figured out what the problem was; I am writing to explain and (in a way) apologize. Late Sunday night/Monday morning, a lightning strike destroyed the physical connection between my local system and the Internet service node to which it is connected. Our system stayed up but could not connect to the outside; as a result, mail to addresses on this system was returned to the sender as undeliverable. Unfortunately, mail to me from techdiver was apparently returned to techdiver, which apparently accepted it as incoming mail and sent it out to the list (including me!). This set up a positive feedback in which mail was sent to me, bounced back to the list, resent across the list to everyone including me, rebounced back to the list, resent across the list ..... . In other words, it's our (GU's) fault! Sorry! My sysop tells me the problem has been corrected, and the infinite mail loop has hopefully by now run its course. I can only imagine what a hassle this has been to everyone (I stopped getting mail when my 750KB quota filled, but JR got 7MB of the stuff; god knows how long it actually went on!). I am only a user here, not the sysop, and I'm certainly not in charge of lightning, but I still feel a little bit responsible. I'd like to offer an (unofficial) apology from Georgetown and myself; I hope everyone has recovered without too much disruption. Best to all - Kevin T. Keith | keithk@gu*.ge*.ed* Graduate Student/Troll | kkeith01@gu*.dm*.ge*.ed* Bioethics Doctoral Program | 73373,3713 (Compuserve) Georgetown University | --Boundary (ID xGEEARZVdVkyBD3ls/hN4g)--
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