[net.mail] "Failed Mail" Messages

wcwells@ucbopal.CC.Berkeley.ARPA (12/13/83)

I forwarded the articles concerning the recent flood of "Failed Mail"
messages to the sites concerned (ucbvax, tektronix, and Rand-Relay)
and received the following reply.

	Date: Tuesday, 13 Dec 1983 09:42-PST
	From: obrien@rand-unix
	To: wcwells@ucbopal (William C. Wells)
	Cc: postmaster@RAND-RELAY, decvax!ihnp4!hogpc!rwp@rand-unix,
	        postmaster@BERKELEY, azure!stevesu.tektronix@RAND-RELAY
	Subject: Re: "Failed Mail" Messages

	It turns out that the problem appears to have been at
	Tektronix.  The new liaison there found a bad address in their
	queue file which, when corrected, seems to have stopped the
	flood.

Bill Wells
ucbvax!wcwells

PS. All Internet mail sites (ARPANET, MILNET, etc.) have a "postmaster"
mail box to which mail problems can be reported directly.