From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhtsa!alice!npoiv!npois!hou5f!hou5b!hou5c!hou5e!mat
Newsgroups: net.flame
Title: Consarn Arpanet gateways
Article-I.D.: hou5e.432
Posted: Fri Apr 29 11:01:52 1983
Received: Sat Apr 30 04:42:06 1983

<FLAME ON>
In the course of one day I have seen TWO copies of an 365 line article
(the SAME <insert favorite expletive> article) sent out with a
``failed message -- return to sender'' header.  This is a ``service''
provided by some mailing--list Arpa--related system.  These garbage
messages are being bounced around on 500 machines at considerable expense
in phone bills and machine time.  Nobody wants to read them; I suspect that
most folks don't even want to SEE the damn things.  Why are it out there?
Because of a brain--damaged interface between two very different
network systems.  ``Return to sender--message failed messages'' shouldn't
be gatewayed BACK from a mailing--list system to a bulletin board system.

Can anyone fix this nuisance?
<FLAME Freakin' OFF>
					Mark Terribile
					hou5e!mat