[news.sysadmin] Question about articles being mailed

tom@dvnspc1.UUCP (Tom Albrecht) (12/09/88)

Does anyone know why our news software started mailing articles?

from the news log file:
...
   Dec  8 15:10	burdvax	received <18657@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> ng \
     comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.graphics subj 'GNUplot' from jsin@CS.UCLA.EDU
   Dec  8 15:10	burdvax	Article mailed to comp-binaries-ibm-pc-d
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
...

Why are we getting articles mailed to funny things?
We end up getting mail sent to the uucp user saying that the thing couldn't
be mailed, like this:

   From uucp Thu Dec  8 15:10 EST 1988
   >From MAILER-DAEMON  Thu Dec  8 15:10:19 1988
   Received: by dvnspc1.Unisys.COM (5.51/6.2); Thu, 8 Dec 88 15:10:19 EST
   Date: Thu, 8 Dec 88 15:10:19 EST
   From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON>
   Subject: Returned mail: unknown mailer error 8
   Message-Id: <8812082010.AA20602@dvnspc1.Unisys.COM>
   To: uucp
   Status: R

      ----- Transcript of session follows -----
   lmail: Can't send to comp-binaries-ibm-pc-d

   along with a copy of the article


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Thanks for the help


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Tom Albrecht
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