From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxj!mhuxa!houxm!hogpc!houti!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!furuta
Newsgroups: net.news
Title: Re: Why strange response to posted article? (COMSAT, MIT-MC take note)
Article-I.D.: uw-beave.590
Posted: Fri May 13 03:41:42 1983
Received: Thu May 19 05:37:38 1983
References: <2194@csu-cs.UUCP>

Forgive me if an answer already circulated to this problem--we are just
beginning to get news in again after multiple outages almost totally
cut us off from the net.

The question was about a COMSAT@MIT-MC error message concerning an
article probably posted to net.physics.  This is a fairly unimportant
error warning.  What's happened is that your message has been gatewayed
onto an Arpanet mailing list (physics@Sri-Unix).  One of the recipients
of this list (probably miyata@MIT-MC) has a forwarding which tries to
redirect his mail to MIT-AI (miyata@MIT-AI).  Since MIT-AI is
permanently dead, the message cannot be delivered and is returned to
the sender.  Messages of this sort usually mean that one or more names
on an Arpanet mailing list are invalid for one reason or another.  If
it's convenient, you can usually forward them to <name>-request@host
(in this case physics-request@sri-unix) and there is some chance that
there will actually be someone there to receive the message and that
the person will act to remove the problem.