chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) (02/08/90)
I recently sent mail to Brian Fox <bfox@ai.mit.edu>. It would appear
that MIT has a mail forwarding loop. Check out this bounce notice:
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Is this message some sort of record?
(Brian -- if you're out there, I'm trying again at a different address.)
--
Chip Salzenberg at ComDev/TCT <chip%tct@ateng.com>, <uunet!ateng!tct!chip>
"The Usenet, in a very real sense, does not exist."