erict@flatline.UUCP (j eric townsend) (06/17/88)
I keep getting this mail to uucp at my site: |------- |From uucp Thu Jun 16 06:50 CST 1988 |>From uunet!MAILER-DAEMON Thu Jun 16 06:50:55 1988 remote from nuchat |Received: by flatline.UUCP (smail2.5) | id AA03662; 16 Jun 88 06:50:55 CST (Thu) |Received: by nuchat.UUCP (smail2.5) | id AA03669; 16 Jun 88 01:11:38 CDT (Thu) |Received: from nuchat.UUCP by uunet.UU.NET (5.54/1.14) with UUCP | id AA26083; Thu, 16 Jun 88 02:11:08 EDT |Date: Thu, 16 Jun 88 02:11:08 EDT |From: uunet!MAILER-DAEMON (Mail Delivery Subsystem) |Subject: Returned mail: User unknown |Message-Id: <8806160611.AA26083@uunet.UU.NET> |To: nuchat!flatline!uucp | | ----- Transcript of session follows ----- |550 comp-std-misc... User unknown: Inappropriate ioctl for device | | ----- Unsent message follows ----- |Received: from nuchat.UUCP by uunet.UU.NET (5.54/1.14) with UUCP | id AA26070; Thu, 16 Jun 88 02:11:08 EDT |Received: by nuchat.UUCP (smail2.5) | id AA03008; 16 Jun 88 00:21:11 CDT (Thu) |Received: by flatline.UUCP (smail2.5) | id AA03330; 16 Jun 88 01:11:33 EDT (Thu) |To: comp-std-misc |Path: flatline!nuchat!tness1!tness7!bellcore!rutgers!gatech!bloom-beacon!husc6!think!ames!decwrl!labrea!carcoar!andy |From: andy@carcoar.Stanford.EDU (Andy Freeman) |Newsgroups: talk.politics.theory,comp.society.futures,comp.misc,talk.politics.misc,ba.politics,comp.std.misc,soc.misc |Subject: Re: Rewarding Researchers Without Restricting Copying |Keywords: copyright patent economics ISA |Message-Id: <22611@labrea.Stanford.EDU> |Date: 14 Jun 88 23:54:01 GMT |References: <10777@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> |Sender: news@labrea.Stanford.EDU |Reply-To: andy@carcoar.Stanford.EDU (Andy Freeman) |Organization: Stanford University |Lines: 46 | |[Text deleted. -eric] | And this too: ----------- |From uucp Thu Jun 16 22:38 EDT 1988 |>From uunet!MAILER-DAEMON Thu Jun 16 22:38:22 1988 remote from nuchat |Received: by flatline.UUCP (smail2.5) | id AA00219; 16 Jun 88 22:38:22 EDT (Thu) |Received: by nuchat.UUCP (smail2.5) | id AA11443; 16 Jun 88 21:21:58 CDT (Thu) |Received: from nuchat.UUCP by uunet.UU.NET (5.59/1.14) with UUCP | id AA14133; Thu, 16 Jun 88 22:17:48 EDT |Date: Thu, 16 Jun 88 22:17:48 EDT |From: uunet!MAILER-DAEMON (Mail Delivery Subsystem) |Subject: Returned mail: User unknown |Message-Id: <8806170217.AA14133@uunet.UU.NET> |To: nuchat!flatline!uucp | | ----- Transcript of session follows ----- |550 comp-std-c... User unknown: Inappropriate ioctl for device | | ----- Unsent message follows ----- |Received: from nuchat.UUCP by uunet.UU.NET (5.59/1.14) with UUCP | id AA14114; Thu, 16 Jun 88 22:17:48 EDT |Received: by nuchat.UUCP (smail2.5) | id AA01748; 16 Jun 88 07:43:57 CDT (Thu) |Received: by flatline.UUCP (smail2.5) | id AA03692; 16 Jun 88 07:54:20 EDT (Thu) |To: comp-std-c |Path: flatline!nuchat!tness1!tness7!bellcore!clyde!watmath!rbutterworth |From: rbutterworth@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ray Butterworth) |Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.std.c |Subject: Trigraphs. |Message-Id: <19345@watmath.waterloo.edu> |Date: 7 Jun 88 14:27:21 GMT |Followup-To: comp.std.c |Distribution: comp |Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario |Lines: 69 [Text deleted. -eric] Any way that I can get this solved? Is anyone else getting this? -- Skate UNIX or go home, boogie boy... Spelling errors are directly related to how little time I have... J. Eric Townsend ->uunet!nuchat!flatline!erict smail:511Parker#2,Hstn,Tx,77007 ..!bellcore!tness1!/
mark@cbnews.ATT.COM (Mark Horton) (06/18/88)
In article <889@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (j eric townsend) writes: >|550 comp-std-misc... User unknown: Inappropriate ioctl for device >|550 comp-std-c... User unknown: Inappropriate ioctl for device It's because flatline seems to think comp.std.misc and comp.std.c are moderated groups. Both have been changed to unmoderated. Control messages were sent around changing them, but flatline is apparently either running some old software that doesn't understand how to change mod to unmod, or else isn't getting news reliably. If everyone would take a minute to do !egrep "^comp.std" /usr/lib/news/active and see if there's a "y" or "m" at the ends of these two newsgroups, you'd do the net a big favor. These groups should say "y", not "m". Just editing the file with a text editor will fix your one site. You have no idea how much mail is flooding into cbosgd aimed at these two newsgroups. The ones with bogus return addresses get dumped into my mailbox. I finally got sick of it and pointed them at /dev/null. Poor old OSGD would sure appreciate it if you'd take the load off. Not to mention the extra error messages that will crop up July 1 when the external links go away. Mark
guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris) (06/18/88)
> Any way that I can get this solved? Is anyone else getting this?
I tried connecting to "uunet.uu.net"s SMTP server, and found that, while it
didn't know about "comp-std-misc", it did know about at least one user on
"uunet", so it may not be a problem with the "sendmail" prgram.
Either there is supposed to be "comp-std-misc@uunet.uu.net" and
"comp-std-c@uunet.uu.net" addresses, in which case the aliases file on "uunet"
may be wrong, or there is *not* supposed to be such an address, in which case
whatever system is trying to gateway USENET messages to those addresses is
wrong. I don't know which is the case, and thus I don't know how to solve
this.blarson@skat.usc.edu (Bob Larson) (06/18/88)
In article <592@cbnews.ATT.COM> mark@cbnews.ATT.COM (Mark Horton) writes: >If everyone would take a minute to do > !egrep "^comp.std" /usr/lib/news/active >and see if there's a "y" or "m" at the ends of these two newsgroups, >you'd do the net a big favor. These groups should say "y", not "m". >Just editing the file with a text editor will fix your one site. While you are at it, do the same for comp.os.os9. (It was recently changed to unmoderated.) I got several bounces from sites having it marked as moderated. Bob Larson Arpa: Blarson@Ecla.Usc.Edu blarson@skat.usc.edu Uucp: {sdcrdcf,cit-vax}!oberon!skat!blarson Prime mailing list: info-prime-request%ais1@ecla.usc.edu oberon!ais1!info-prime-request
erict@flatline.UUCP (j eric townsend) (06/18/88)
In article <592@cbnews.ATT.COM>, mark@cbnews.ATT.COM (Mark Horton) writes: | In article <889@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (j eric townsend) writes: | >|550 comp-std-misc... User unknown: Inappropriate ioctl for device | >|550 comp-std-c... User unknown: Inappropriate ioctl for device | | It's because flatline seems to think comp.std.misc and comp.std.c are | moderated groups. Both have been changed to unmoderated. Control | messages were sent around changing them, but flatline is apparently | either running some old software that doesn't understand how to | change mod to unmod, or else isn't getting news reliably. Bingo. Newsfeed was intermittent for a long period of time. I had both groups marked as moderated. Sorry for the trouble, if it caused any. -- Skate UNIX or go home, boogie boy... Spelling errors are directly related to how little time I have... J. Eric Townsend ->uunet!nuchat!flatline!erict smail:511Parker#2,Hstn,Tx,77007 ..!bellcore!tness1!/