g-zavras@rocky.cs.wisc.edu.CS.WISC.EDU (Alexios Zavras) (11/10/88)
Since I've seen some other postings bout this subject, I might as well ask for help for my problem: I'm trying to reach my cousin in LSE (London School of Economics) from the U of Wisc where I am. I have sent him a mail using the address leopoulos%vax2.lse.ac.uk@uunet.uu.net that someone (not the sysadmin for the machine) said it should work. The mail reached its destination, since I got a reply with headers: > From LEOPOULOS@VAX2.LSE.AC.UK Wed Nov 2 09:14 EST 1988 > Received: from vms3.macc.wisc.edu by rocky.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 2 Nov 88 09:14:52 EST > Received: from UKACRL.BITNET by vms3.macc.wisc.edu; Wed, 2 Nov 88 08:14 CST > Received: from RL.IB by UKACRL.BITNET (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 4187; Wed, 02 Nov 88 12:27:22 GMT > Received: from RL.IB by UK.AC.RL.IB (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 5028; Wed, 02 Nov 88 12:27:22 GM > Message-Id: <18110208141218@vms3.macc.wisc.edu> > Date: 2-NOV-1988 12:25:18 GMT > From: LEOPOULOS@VAX2.LSE.AC.UK > To: G-ZAVRAS > Via: UK.AC.LSE.VAX2; 2 NOV 88 12:27:16 GMT > Status: R Well, now the funny part: I learned (by telephone) that my cousin has been contacted by the Foreign Office and cautioned NEVER to receive such mail again, or he'll be deported !!! Needless to say, my cousin was very upset and I haven't tried to reach him again... Could someone (Mr. Brian Tompsett ?) explain what (and, if possible, why) hapenned ? Is there a way to send mail to LSE ? (without any danger for my cousin :-) Thanx -- Alexios Zavras (-zvr-) zavras@cleo.cs.wisc.edu g-zavras@rocky.cs.wisc.edu
cme@cloud9.UUCP (Carl Ellison) (11/10/88)
In article <6632@spool.cs.wisc.edu>, g-zavras@rocky.cs.wisc.edu.CS.WISC.EDU (Alexios Zavras) writes: > [ re. mail to: ] > leopoulos%vax2.lse.ac.uk@uunet.uu.net > . . . > Well, now the funny part: I learned (by telephone) that > my cousin has been contacted by the Foreign Office and cautioned > NEVER to receive such mail again, or he'll be deported !!! ^^^^^^^ ??????? In other words, any one of the thousands of us reading this mail could send a message to your cousin and as a result he'd be deported??? That sounds like a strange legal system -- more like what we hear about the Iron Curtain than what I learned in school about Mother England. Did you really mean to say "receive"? --Carl Ellison ...!harvard!anvil!es!cme (normal mail address) ...!ulowell!cloud9!cme (usenet news reading) (standard disclaimer)
awm@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk (Aled Morris) (11/12/88)
> Well, now the funny part: I learned (by telephone) that >my cousin has been contacted by the Foreign Office and cautioned >NEVER to receive such mail again, or he'll be deported !!! How extraodinary. The mail headers show that your messages were routed through the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory BITNET gateway, a government sponsored research institute. This is a very popular route (since it is currently free), and I've never heard of any mail being stopped, or users being threatened by the Foreign Office! I wonder if RAL have installed software for checking keywords in mail messages (SDI, nuclear power, sabotage, etc. etc.)? Aled Morris systems programmer mail: awm@doc.ic.ac.uk | Department of Computing uucp: ..!ukc!icdoc!awm | Imperial College talk: 01-589-5111x5085 | 180 Queens Gate, London SW7 2BZ #disclaimer "None of the above is in any way an official statement from IC"