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From: wcwells@ucbopal.CC.Berkeley.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: "Failed Mail" Messages
Message-ID: <126@ucbopal.CC.Berkeley.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 13-Dec-83 14:22:09 EST
Article-I.D.: ucbopal.126
Posted: Tue Dec 13 14:22:09 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 16-Dec-83 02:12:07 EST
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Berkeley CA USA
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I forwarded the articles concerning the recent flood of "Failed Mail"
messages to the sites concerned (ucbvax, tektronix, and Rand-Relay)
and received the following reply.

	Date: Tuesday, 13 Dec 1983 09:42-PST
	From: obrien@rand-unix
	To: wcwells@ucbopal (William C. Wells)
	Cc: postmaster@RAND-RELAY, decvax!ihnp4!hogpc!rwp@rand-unix,
	        postmaster@BERKELEY, azure!stevesu.tektronix@RAND-RELAY
	Subject: Re: "Failed Mail" Messages

	It turns out that the problem appears to have been at
	Tektronix.  The new liaison there found a bad address in their
	queue file which, when corrected, seems to have stopped the
	flood.

Bill Wells
ucbvax!wcwells

PS. All Internet mail sites (ARPANET, MILNET, etc.) have a "postmaster"
mail box to which mail problems can be reported directly.