sjl@amdahl.UUCP (Steve Langdon) (08/23/85)
Odd mail about an item I posted leads me to believe that something is broken
in an Arpanet gateway. A sample of the header of the mail follows (I added the
question marks rather than > or < to simplify telling what was added where).
?From uucp Thu Aug 22 19:36 PDT 1985
?Received: by amdahl id AA25358; Thu, 22 Aug 85 19:36:10 PDT
?Received: from harvard.ARPA (HARVARD.HARVARD.EDU) by seismo.CSS.GOV with SMTP; Sun, 18 Aug 85 23:13:34 EDT
?Received: from think by harvard.ARPA with UUCP; Sun, 18 Aug 85 23:14:32 EDT
?Received: by GODOT.THINK.COM; Sun, 18 Aug 85 23:08:04 edt
?Received: by mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (4.12/4.8) id AA06020; Sun, 18 Aug 85 22:10:59 edt
?Date: Sat, 17-Aug-85 13:07:31 EDT
?From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <seismo!harvard!think!mit-eddie!MAILER-DAEMON>
?Subject: Returned mail: Deferred: Network is unreachable
?Message-Id: <8508190210.AA06020@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU>
?To: dual!unisoft!mtxinu!rtech!amdahl!sjl
?Status: R
?
? ----- Transcript of session follows -----
?>>> MAIL From:<think!harvard!seismo!lll-crg!dual!unisoft!mtxinu!rtech!amdahl!sjl@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU>
?<<< 501 Error in path -think!harvard!seismo!lll-crg!dual!unisoft!mtxinu!rtech!amdahl!sjl@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU
?554 Postel@USC-ISIF,Richardson@USC-ISIF... Remote protocol error: Bad file number
?>>> MAIL From:<think!harvard!seismo!lll-crg!dual!unisoft!mtxinu!rtech!amdahl!sjl@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU>
?<<< 500 Syntax error or field too long in mailbox
?554 GLAUER@BBNA,RCC2@BBNA... Remote protocol error: Bad file number
?
? ----- Unsent message follows -----
?Received: by mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (4.12/4.8) id AA05525; Sun, 18 Aug 85 21:30:24 edt
?Relay-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP
?Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site amdahl.UUCP
?Path: mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!lll-crg!dual!unisoft!mtxinu!rtech!amdahl!sjl
?From: amdahl!sjl (Steve Langdon)
?Newsgroups: net.dcom,net.ham-radio.packet
?Subject: Standards for commercial packet radio
?Message-Id: <1919@amdahl.UUCP>
?Date: Sat, 17-Aug-85 13:07:31 EDT
?Article-I.D.: amdahl.1919
?Posted: Sat Aug 17 13:07:31 1985
?Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 21:23:00 EDT
?Distribution: net
?Organization: Amdahl Corp, Sunnyvale CA
?Lines: 14
?Xref: think net.dcom:807 net.ham-radio.packet:28
?Apparently-To: packet-radio-dist
?
?I have a friend who is doing some work that involves the use of packet radio
The rest of my item followed. I am posting this in hope that it will help
alert someone to the problem, or better yet help them fix it.
--
Stephen J. Langdon ...!{ihnp4,cbosgd,hplabs,sun}!amdahl!sjl
[ The article above is not an official statement from any organization
in the known universe. ]