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From: ggr@hudson.UUCP (Guy Riddle)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: Strange message!
Message-ID: <184@hudson.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Apr-84 14:21:42 EST
Article-I.D.: hudson.184
Posted: Mon Apr 16 14:21:42 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 17-Apr-84 07:48:53 EST
References: <218@hocsd.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Piscataway
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The problem was probably due to someone down here replying to one of your
netnews articles.

Most of our mail to the outside world is gated through our
DATAKIT VCS Network (hence the internal domain addresses like
py/garage/edsel.DK -- all addresses are hierarchical ASCII-strings
(no numbers) -- our exchanges are py/garage/ and py/lot/) to
one host which handles most of our uucp traffic.

It turns out our gateway host (py/garage/bentley (aka pyuxbb)) ran out
of space on the /usr file system that day, which is why uux returned
an error code of 255 and why the lengthy transcript that sendmail
usually returns on errors was absent.

Lots of UNIX software, including uucp and sendmail, falls apart
when /usr runs out of space.  [When was the last time you saw a program
check for an error on an fclose(3S)?]

			=== Guy Riddle == AT&T Bell Laboratories, Piscataway ===