[net.news] slow mail traffic, possible problem

ix454@sdccs6.UUCP (12/08/83)

I recently received a letter that had been sent 16 days earlier.  I am not 
complaining about slow mail service, so please no flames.  I am merely 
trying to warn of a possible software problem.

It is also possible that one of the machines were down for part/all of this
time.

>From a trivial analysis of the headers, it appears the message sat for two
weeks somewhere on {harpo, stolaf, umn-cs, minn-ua}.  None of these machines
added Received headers to track down the problem.

The offending header:

>From sdcsvax!decvax!harpo!stolaf!umn-cs!minn-ua!tim Wed Dec  7 17:17:01 1983
Date: 21 Nov 83 22:01:13 CST (Mon)
Full-Name: 
Subject: Re: UCSD p-System, Debugger, File system, IV.2
Message-Id: <8311220401.AA02363@minn-ua.uucp>
Received: by sdcsvax.UCSD; Wed, 7 Dec 83 17:19:34 pst
Received: by decvax.UUCP (4.12/4.2)
	id AA02174; Tue, 6 Dec 83 18:19:22 est
Received: by minn-ua.uucp (3.320/3.14)
	id AA02363; 21 Nov 83 22:01:13 CST (Mon)
Received: from sdcsvax.UCSD (sdcsvax.ARPA) by sdccs6.UCSD (3.327/1.0ucsd)
	id AA01992; 7 Dec 83 17:16:56 PST (Wed)
From: sdcsvax!decvax!minn-ua!tim (Tim Giebelhaus)
To: umn-cs!stolaf!harpo!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdccs6!ix454
References: <1197@sdccs6.UUCP>

-- 
  Allyn Fratkin
  U.C. San Diego