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From: rwp@hogpc.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Request for information (how to stop failed mail messages)
Message-ID: <300@hogpc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Dec-83 13:02:23 EST
Article-I.D.: hogpc.300
Posted: Thu Dec  8 13:02:23 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 10-Dec-83 01:48:01 EST
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Re: Spastic mailings from mmdf@rand-relay

Has anyone had this problem (and can someone tell me how to solve it)?

The problem is I sent a reply to a netnews and, for whatever reason, the
message wasn't able to be delivered to the recipient.  As a result I have
received (as of my last count) well over 600 messages from mmdf@rand-relay
bearing some aspect of a "failed mail" tiding.  The messages come in lots
of three with the first being a short message with a header line:
	From: MEMO SERVICE (MMDF) <ihnp4!decvax!mmdf@rand-relay.
The second states that my message will follow and begins with the header:
	From decvax!tektronix!mmdf@rand-relay.
The third is my message with transit headers attached.  Since I only sent
one message, it seems that such a large number of failed mail messages
is unwarranted.  I tried sending a reply asking the sender to stop sending
such messages, but thus far that has brought no result.  This problem is
painful because about twice a day I have to wade through about fifty mail
messages, deleting as I go, just to make sure that a real message is not
mixed in with the garbage.

Does anyone out in netland know how I can get these messages to cease?
Please reply by mail as I do not subscribe to this newsgroup.

				Thanks ahead of time,
				Rick Paul
				AT&T Information Systems Laboratories
				Lincroft, New Jersey
				ihnp4!hogpc!rwp