Mailing list spewing...

[Robert G. Ferrell]

>>>      [Maire..I think your newsreader or net feed is a little out of whack..I
>>> got a total of 9 copies of your reply, and all of them had numerous error
>>> messages about parse errors and such...]
>>
>>Aahh!! I thought I was the only person to receive these, as the list
>>maintainer, so I didn't look into it any further. It appears to be a
>>mail gateway of some sort that wasn't parsing correctly. Unfortunately I
>>think I deleted the messgaes so I can't remember which one. The next
>>time it happens, I will chase it down and talk to the mail administrator
>>of the two machines in question. (Maire's and the one it's destined for.
>>More than likely it's the machine it's destined for that is out of whack
>>since every other machine on the list received it just fine without
>>spewing. It's somewhere in OK is all I remember.)
>
>here's one of the headers, looks like okstate.edu to me
>
>Status:  O
>From: owner-an at uunet.uu.net
>Hop-count: 1
>MCB-options: NNYNANA
>MCB-type: 0
>Date-posted: 7-Jul-95 15:51:15
>SMF-version: 70
>Error-report: 0
>MHS-id: 3158FD2F813437D9
>To: X-Hop-count:1 at uunet.uu.net;@eden.com
>X-Hop-count: 1
>X-MCB-options: NNYNANA
>X-MCB-type: 0
>X-Date-posted: 7-Jul-95 14:44:43
>X-SMF-version: 70
>X-Error-report: 0
>X-MHS-id: 8F48FD2F813437D9
>X-To: "Date00.5.1329": "00 orton"@uunet.uu.net;, eden.com at uunet.uu.net,
>    "dhostwo.convex.com}" (Patricia Horton )Patricia Horton
><dhostwo.convex.com}@uunet.uu.net>
>X-MMDF-Warning: Parse error in original version of preceding line at
>a.cs.okstate.edu
>X-MMDF-Warning: Parse error in original vesion of preceding line at
>a.cs.okstate.edu
>X-X-Message-Id: <199507071829.NAA27218 at dhostwo>
>X-X-To: rferrell at bga.com
>Subject: bjornsborg baronial court
>Cc: ansteorra at eden.com
>X-X-Prcedence: bulk
>X-Message-ID: <9148FD2F813437D9 at pp.okstate.edu>
>XVia-host: OSUPPLNT.osupp
>Date: 00 5 14:07: 00 bulk
>Via-host: OSUPPLNT.osupp
>Sender: owner-ansteorra at eden.com
>Precedence: bulk
>Reply-To: ansteorra at eden.com
>
>
>>
>>--
>>Phelim Uhtred Gervas  | "I want to be called COTTONTIPS. There is something
>>Barony of Bryn Gwlad  |  graceful about that lady. A young woman bursting with
>>House Flaming Dog     |  vigor. She blinked at the sudden light. She writes
>>pug at arlut.utexas.edu  |  beautiful poems. When ever shall we meet again?"
>
>
>
Yep, that looks like the OKState.edu newsfeed.  Could be a bad link, or a
handshaking error, or a corruted mail generator, or a bunch of stuff.  I
just got a private Email from Maire, and it was completely normal, so I
guess the problem has been resolved.

Cynric