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From: karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: sendsys can be a pain
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Date: 23 Jan 89 16:59:17 GMT
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One little slip of the finger, a stray beta particle takes out a
synaptic gap in my upper visual cortex, and my mailbox is liable to be
filling up for a week.

I inadvertently let a sendsys request escape to the outside world.  It
was intended as a smallish internal-to-OSU test, but I botched the job
and all of your systems out there are dutifully responding and sending
me mail about it.  Ah, well, live and learn.  The wonders of
ever-so-speedy NNTP.

I've sent out cancels, in the hope of stopping the beastie at some
point before the local /usr/spool/mail blows out...

Deeply repentant,
--Karl