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From: hirai@swatsun.uucp (Eiji "A.G." Hirai)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: More BITNET stupidity
Message-ID: <1619@tulum.UUCP>
Date: 26 Feb 88 15:08:15 GMT
References: <7136@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu<
Organization: Sun Lab, Swarthmore College PA
Lines: 59
Summary: more widespread than you think

In article <7136@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu< karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes:
< I'm a seriously confused individual.  Quite out of the blue, I got the
< following message:
< 
< |From: Revised List Processor (1.5m) <LISTSERV%OREGON1.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU<
< |Subject:      Output of job "EMACS" from RSCS@UWAVM
< |
< |Command replies from RSCS@UWAVM are being forwarded to you.
< |This server has been placed offline. Processing of
< |your DISTRIBUTE request has been postponed.

	We also got this for one of our users here at swatsun.uucp.
We're not even a Bitnet site - ours came through two uucp sites.
Boy, this brain-damaged software must really be desperate...

	Here's what we got:

< Received: by OREGON1 (Mailer X1.25) id 8344; Tue, 23 Feb 88 21:21:22 PST
< Date:         Tue, 23 Feb 1988 21:21 PST
< From: Revised List Processor (1.5m) <LISTSERV@OREGON1<
< Subject:      Output of job "INFO-C" from RSCS@UWAVM
< 
< Command replies from RSCS@UWAVM are being forwarded to you.
< This server has been placed offline. Processing of
< your DISTRIBUTE request has been postponed.
< 
< Received: by OREGON1 (Mailer X1.25) id 8706; Tue, 23 Feb 88 22:00:38 PST
< Date:         Tue, 23 Feb 1988 21:53 PST
< From: Revised List Processor (1.5m) <LISTSERV@OREGON1<
< Subject:      Output of job "INFO-C" from RSCS@UWAVM
< 
< Command replies from RSCS@UWAVM are being forwarded to you.
< RSCS@UWAVM has sent a DISTRIBUTE job to LISTSERV@OREGON1 with your userid as
< "from" origin. This job has been processed with the origin being forced back
< to   "RSCS@UWAVM".   Please   contact  the   LISTSERV   Coordination   Board
< <LCOORD-L@FRECP11< if you  think that "RSCS@UWAVM" should  have been treated
< as a "trusted" userid.
< Invalid mail origin specification.
< 

< |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.

	Wow, I love replies like this!!  If someone finds out what
this is, please let us know.  We're mighty interested in who's doing this
thing...

						-a.g. hirai
-- 
Eiji "A.G." Hirai @ Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA 19081 | Tel. 215-543-9855
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