grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) (08/09/87)
Today, about 60 messages reached here that seem to be some sites attempt to
use the ihave/sendme news protocol that are being transmitted a bit further
than intended. There were one or two of these messages a few days back...
The evidence:
Aug 9 11:23 rutgers received <1896@xanth.UUCP> ng comp.sources.bugs subj 'nethack "bugs"'
Aug 9 11:23 rutgers from kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) relay
Aug 9 11:23 rutgers <1896@xanth.UUCP> sent to bpa, vu-vlsi, hutch, snark
Aug 9 11:23 rutgers received <1901@xanth.UUCP> ng comp.ai subj 'sendme <947@unc.cs.unc.edu> ames'
Aug 9 11:23 rutgers from kyle@xanth.UUCP (Kyle Jones) relay
Aug 9 11:23 rutgers Ctl Msg comp.ai from rutgers!ames!xanth!kyle: sendme <947@unc.cs.unc.edu> ames
Aug 9 11:23 rutgers Cannot find system to send article <947@unc.cs.unc.edu> to.
Aug 9 11:23 rutgers received <1903@xanth.UUCP> ng comp.ai subj 'sendme <947@unc.cs.unc.edu> ames'
Aug 9 11:23 rutgers from kyle@xanth.UUCP (Kyle Jones) relay
Aug 9 11:23 rutgers Ctl Msg comp.ai from rutgers!ames!xanth!kyle: sendme <947@unc.cs.unc.edu> ames
Aug 9 11:23 rutgers Cannot find system to send article <947@unc.cs.unc.edu> to.
Aug 9 11:23 rutgers received <1905@xanth.UUCP> ng comp.ai subj 'sendme <947@unc.cs.unc.edu> ames'
Aug 9 11:23 rutgers from kyle@xanth.UUCP (Kyle Jones) relay
Aug 9 11:23 rutgers Ctl Msg comp.ai from rutgers!ames!xanth!kyle: sendme <947@unc.cs.unc.edu> ames
Aug 9 11:23 rutgers Cannot find system to send article <947@unc.cs.unc.edu> to.
Aug 9 11:23 rutgers received <1907@xanth.UUCP> ng comp.ai subj 'sendme <947@unc.cs.unc.edu> ames'
Aug 9 11:23 rutgers from kyle@xanth.UUCP (Kyle Jones) relay
Aug 9 11:23 rutgers Ctl Msg comp.ai from rutgers!ames!xanth!kyle: sendme <947@unc.cs.unc.edu> ames
Aug 9 11:23 rutgers Cannot find system to send article <947@unc.cs.unc.edu> to.
Aug 9 11:23 rutgers received <1908@xanth.UUCP> ng comp.emacs subj 'sendme <4096@ncoast.UUCP> ames'
Aug 9 11:23 rutgers from kyle@xanth.UUCP (Kyle Jones) relay
Aug 9 11:23 rutgers Ctl Msg comp.emacs from rutgers!ames!xanth!kyle: sendme <4096@ncoast.UUCP> ames
Aug 9 11:23 rutgers Cannot find system to send article <4096@ncoast.UUCP> to.
--
George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
but no way officially representing arpa: cbmvax!grr@seismo.css.GOV
Commodore, Engineering Department fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)kyle@xanth.UUCP (Kyle Jones) (08/10/87)
This is my fault; my apologies to everyone. Our news partition overflowed, causing some articles to be lost. Therefore I sent out sendme's to one of our neighbors to request that the lost articles be resent, or so I thought. I didn't expect the default distribution for ihave/sendme control messages to be world, so I didn't think to specify a distribution. In fact everything I believed about the semantics and syntax of ihave/sendme messages has turned out to be wrong. Here's a suggestion: in the next news release let the default distribution on all control messages (except cancel), be 'local'. I'm aware that bungling like mine isn't the norm, but this sort of thing HAS happened before and now I know how. Again, sorry for all the bogus messages and any inconvenience caused down the line. -- kyle jones "Geez, it seemed like such a simple thing..."