gnu@sun.UUCP (06/09/83)
Here at Sun we seem to be getting a lot of duplicated mail lately. Some of it is being generated here (we are trying to find out why) but much of it comes in from other places. For mail forwarded thru sendmail, there's an easy way to see who duplicated it. Look in all those obnoxious "Received" lines and see which ones are the same in the different copies of the message, and which are different. For example, in the following, it's clear that ucbarpa only received the message once, (id AA06275 and time are the same in both), but sun received it twice. That doesn't tell you who duplicated it, but you know it happened after reception by ucbarpa's sendmail and before reception by sun's -- it could have been duped by ucbarpa's sendmail, ucbarpa's uucp, or sun's uucp/rmail. Let's pool our information and fix this before it becomes epidemic. John Gilmore, Sun Microsystems _______________________________________ From ucbarpa!shannon Sat Jun 4 17:14:26 1983 Date: 4 Jun 83 16:48:52 PDT (Sat) From: ucbarpa!shannon (Bill Shannon) Message-Id: <8306042348.AA06275@UCBARPA.ARPA> Received: by UCBARPA.ARPA (3.342/3.29) id AA06275; 4 Jun 83 16:48:52 PDT (Sat) Received: by sun.uucp (3.320/3.14) id AA05228; 4 Jun 83 17:13:12 PDT (Sat) To: kas@sun.uucp _______________________________________ From ucbarpa!shannon Sat Jun 4 17:15:17 1983 Date: 4 Jun 83 16:48:52 PDT (Sat) From: ucbarpa!shannon (Bill Shannon) Message-Id: <8306042348.AA06275@UCBARPA.ARPA> Received: by UCBARPA.ARPA (3.342/3.29) id AA06275; 4 Jun 83 16:48:52 PDT (Sat) Received: by sun.uucp (3.320/3.14) id AA05245; 4 Jun 83 17:14:33 PDT (Sat) To: kas@sun.uucp ________________________________________________ Here's another one for you to practice on. Note that, especially in messages from the Arpanet, the Received lines will not be in order and have to be sorted by their times. Be sure to account for the time zones! ________________________________________________ From ucbvax!cbosgd!amd70!pn Sun Jun 5 06:35:09 1983 Date: 5 Jun 83 00:14:01 PDT (Sun) From: cbosgd!ucbvax!amd70!pn (Phil Ngai) Subject: amd70 update Message-Id: <8306050714.AA04671@UCBVAX.ARPA> Received: by UCBVAX.ARPA (3.341/3.31) id AA04671; 5 Jun 83 00:14:01 PDT (Sun) Received: by cbosgd.UUCP (3.327/3.7) id AA26092; 5 Jun 83 06:37:11 EDT (Sun) Received: by sun.uucp (3.320/3.14) id AA07394; 5 Jun 83 06:35:04 PDT (Sun) Sent-By: ucbvax.UUCP Sun Jun 5 00:14:01 1983 To: ucbvax!cbosgd!map Cc: +mark _________________________________________________________ From ucbvax!cbosgd!amd70!pn Sun Jun 5 06:35:58 1983 Date: 5 Jun 83 00:18:38 PDT (Sun) From: cbosgd!ucbvax!amd70!pn (Phil Ngai) Subject: amd70 update Message-Id: <8306050718.AA04761@UCBVAX.ARPA> Received: by UCBVAX.ARPA (3.341/3.31) id AA04761; 5 Jun 83 00:18:38 PDT (Sun) Received: by cbosgd.UUCP (3.327/3.7) id AA26113; 5 Jun 83 06:38:05 EDT (Sun) Received: by sun.uucp (3.320/3.14) id AA07425; 5 Jun 83 06:35:54 PDT (Sun) Sent-By: ucbvax.UUCP Sun Jun 5 00:18:38 1983 To: ucbvax!cbosgd!map Cc: +mark _______________________________________________ The above msg was duplicated before reception by ucbvax's sendmail -- maybe at ucbvax or maybe at amd70.