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From: military@cbnews.ATT.COM (William B. Thacker)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Connection timed out
Message-ID: <2888@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 4 Jan 89 21:16:05 GMT
Reply-To: military@cbnews.ATT.COM (William B. Thacker)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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I'm having a problem with one of the addresses on a mailing list
I maintain.  I keep getting nuucp hate-mail like the following:

   
   From nuucp Wed Jan  4 02:52 EST 1989
   >From postmaster  Wed Jan  4 02:52:01 1989 remote from arpa
   Received: by cbnews.ATT.COM (smail2.6)
   	id AA27660; 4 Jan 89 02:52:01 EST (Wed)
   To:  cbnews!military
   Subject: smtp mail warning
   Status: RO
   
   Your mail to orion.mc.duke.edu!bet is not yet delivered.
   Delivery attempts will continue.
   ---------- diagnosis ----------
   orion.mc.duke.edu [128.109.165.2]: Connection timed out	(9 attempts)
   ---------- unsent mail ----------
   Received: by cbnews.ATT.COM (smail2.6)
   	id AA08858; 1 Jan 89 13:01:19 EST (Sun)
   Message-Id: <8901011301.AA08858@cbnews.ATT.COM>
   Date: 1 Jan 89 13:01:19 EST (Sun)
   From: military@cbnews.ATT.COM (William B. Thacker)

Now, I'm an unqualified novice, but I read this to mean that when
uucp calls up orion.mc.duke.edu, some problem occurs, and no information
is exchanged; the modem connection eventually times out.  (BTW, the
number of attempts, in this case, 9, is variable from message to message).

Am I then correct in my guess there's nothing I can do about it but
remove the name from the mailing list ?  

Apologies if this is the wrong group for such a query.


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Bill Thacker      moderator, sci.military      military@att.att.com

"War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life
or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be 
thoroughly studied."   -  Sun Tzu