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From: karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: More BITNET stupidity
Message-ID: <7136@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 24 Feb 88 16:48:46 GMT
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I'm a seriously confused individual.  Quite out of the blue, I got the
following message:

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|Received: by tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (5.54/2.0)
|        id AA08417; Tue, 23 Feb 88 22:00:52 EST
|Message-Id: <8802240300.AA08417@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
|Received: from OREGON1.UOREGON.EDU by CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU ; Tue, 23 Feb 88 21:58:30 EST
|Received: by OREGON1 (Mailer X1.25) id 7370; Tue, 23 Feb 88 18:56:35 PST
|Date:         Tue, 23 Feb 1988 18:56 PST
|From: Revised List Processor (1.5m) <LISTSERV%OREGON1.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
|Subject:      Output of job "EMACS" from RSCS@UWAVM
|To: KARL@TUT.CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU
|
|Command replies from RSCS@UWAVM are being forwarded to you.
|This server has been placed offline. Processing of
|your DISTRIBUTE request has been postponed.
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This is rather unusual.  I know what RSCS is on IBM beasties (much to
my chagrin), but I don't know the machine UWAVM, I haven't written any
mail on Emacs-related things to anyone on the Internet in several
weeks, and I don't know why it would be performing a DISTRIBUTE
request for me.  (But I can tell it's from the BITNET because IT
BELIEVES IN UPPER CASE...)

it was addressed very specifically to me, though not at the address
from which I normally write mail; I "live" on Triceratops, not Tut.
So I sent a request to the addresses that seemed logical, looking for
some info about why I got it:

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|From karl Wed Feb 24 10:02:36 1988
|To: postmaster@oregon1.bitnet, listserv@oregon1.bitnet
|Subject: [LISTSERV%OREGON1.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU: Output of job "EMACS" from RSCS@UWAVM]
|
|Why have I received this, and what is it supposed to be telling me?
|
|--Karl Kleinpaste
|Ohio State Computer Science
|
|[original message forwarded here]
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I figured that a reply back to LISTSERV ought to do some good, and a
request to postmaster *ought* to get something identifiable.  Nope, I
lose again.  I just got this a couple of minutes ago:

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|Received: from CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU by triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (3.2/2.0)
|	id AA00267; Wed, 24 Feb 88 11:28:57 EST
|Message-Id: <8802241628.AA00267@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu>
|Received: from OREGON1.UOREGON.EDU by CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU ; Wed, 24 Feb 88 10:45:10 EST
|Received: by OREGON1 (Mailer X1.25) id 1839; Wed, 24 Feb 88 07:02:36 PST
|Date:         Wed, 24 Feb 1988 07:02 PST
|From: Revised List Processor (1.5m) <LISTSERV%OREGON1.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
|Subject:      Output of your job "karl"
|To: karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu
|
|> Why have I received this, and what is it supposed to be telling me?
|Unknown command -- "WHY". Try HELP.
|
|All subsequent commands have been flushed.
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OK, fine.  The appropriate response now seems to be to ignore the
issue entirely; asking questions is just generating more useless
traffic in my mailbox.  But I'd sure like to know what the original
note was trying to tell me and, at least as important, what job about
Emacs it is that's got my name on it at that machine.

Dazed and confused,
Karl