swatt@ittvax.UUCP (Alan S. Watt) (12/02/83)
I have been seeing a rash of messages from what appear to be notesfile
sites about "cannot deliver mail...". It appears that someone attempts
to reply to a notesfile-generated article, which gets sent to the user
"notes" at some site, which bounces the mail. This is not so bad,
but for some reason, the same mail gets bounced an apparently infinite
number of times. The two sites I have been noticing are "tektronix"
and "ucbcad".
In the past several days, well over a hundred such messages passed through
here all stemming from what appear to be just two mail messages. The
headers follow. I am intercepting these and routing them to the bit
bucket. I hope dcdwest!davidson and sdccs6!ix192 don't mind.
Would those sites please look into this? Perhaps a simple mail alias
for "notes" as "/dev/null" would suffice?
Thank you.
- Alan S. Watt
{decvax,duke,purdue,psuvax,research,allegra,dcdwest}!ittvax!swatt
Offending mail headers:
Message1 (I have received 56 copies of this since 4pm yesterday):
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From decvax!tektronix!mmdf@tektronix Thu Dec 1 21:14:06 1983 remote from ittvax
Received: by decvax.UUCP (4.12/4.2)
id AA24790; Thu, 1 Dec 83 17:18:03 est
Message-Id: <8312012218.AA24790@decvax.UUCP>
From: MEMO SERVICE (MMDF) <decvax!mmdf@tektronix>
To: decvax!sdcsvax!ittvax!dcdwest!davidson
Received: from rand-relay.csnet by tektronix ; 1 Dec 83 07:33:43 PST
Date: 29 Nov 83 19:20:42-PST (Tue)
Subject: Failed mail
Your message could not be delivered to '@ucbcad'
for the following reason: '(Reason not known)'
Your message follows:
From: decvax!sdcsvax!ittvax!dcdwest!davidson
To:
dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxl!houxm!hogpc!houti!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix
Received: from decvax.uucp by tektronix ; 29 Nov 83 19:11:42 PST
Received: by decvax.UUCP (4.12/4.2), id AA09974; Tue, 29 Nov 83 06:13:30 est
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 83 02:09:03 pst
Subject: Re: HLL RISC? - (nf)
Message-Id: <8311291009.AA26409@sdcsvax.UCSD>
Received: by sdcsvax.UCSD; Tue, 29 Nov 83 02:09:03 pst
References: <780@ucbcad.UUCP>
The Xerox Dorado is a nice disproof of the supposed failure of HLL
architectures.
-Greg
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Actually, it is 28 copies each of two slightly different messages, one
missing the body:
28 <8311291007.AA26395@sdcsvax.UCSD>
28 <8311291009.AA26409@sdcsvax.UCSD>
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Message 2 (I have received 28 copies of this since 4pm yesterday):
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From decvax!tektronix!mmdf@rand-relay Thu Dec 1 21:13:21 1983 remote from ittvax
Received: by decvax.UUCP (4.12/4.2)
id AA24772; Thu, 1 Dec 83 17:17:10 est
Message-Id: <8312012217.AA24772@decvax.UUCP>
From: MEMO SERVICE (MMDF) <decvax!mmdf@rand-relay>
To: decvax!sdcsvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdccs6!ix192@TEKTRONIX
Received: from rand-relay.csnet by tektronix ; 1 Dec 83 07:33:35 PST
Date: 26 Nov 83 21:41:11-PST (Sat)
Subject: Failed mail
Your message could not be delivered to 'notes at Ucbcad'
for the following reason: 'Unknown user at remote site'
Your message follows:
From: decvax!sdcsvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdccs6!ix192
To: sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!tektronix!ucbcad!notes
Received: from decvax.uucp by tektronix ; 26 Nov 83 08:33:34 PST
Received: by decvax.UUCP (4.12/4.2), id AA26387; Sat, 26 Nov 83 06:17:48 est
Date: 25 Nov 83 23:28:46 PST (Fri)
Subject: Re: mfhv - (nf)
Message-Id: <8311260728.AA01265@sdccs6.UCSD>
Received: from sdccs6.UCSD (sdccs6.ARPA) by sdcsvax.UCSD; Fri, 25 Nov 83 23:32:26 pst
Received: by sdccs6.UCSD (3.327/1.0ucsd), id AA01265; 25 Nov 83 23:28:46 PST (Fri)
Errors-To: decvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdccs6!...!sdcsvax!sdccs6./dev/null
Flames-To: You really want to know where your flames can go??
Real-Name: Kenn Frankel
Phone-Number: (619) 453-2093
Vital-Data: Single, tall, dark, and VERY sneaky!
Mother: Still loves me
References: <846@ucbcad.UUCP>
Via: TEKTRONIX; 26 Nov 83 17:51-PST
So tell me - what's so unethnical about yelling TOASTER in a crowded bathtub?
And the thing with the circle on the *bran* box?
Too curious to be living in wonder,
Kenn Frankel
======================================================================malcolm@ecn-ee.UUCP (12/04/83)
#R:ittvax:-114700:ecn-ee:16900001:000:2409 ecn-ee!malcolm Dec 3 15:03:00 1983 I'm not sure if this fixes the problem that ittvax!swatt is seeing, but it did fix a problem that pur-ee had. A Notesfiles site needs to run a program called newsoutput to submit everything that was written for notes and submit it to news. Notes supplies a fake return address for inews but there is a bug in news 2.10 that causes this to fail. The return path then causes the news "Reply" command to reply to the notes account instead of the real account. Malcolm ----------------------------------------------- Return-Path: <ihnp4!cbosgd!mark> Date: 18 Nov 83 17:19:55 EST (Fri) From: cbosgd!mark (Mark Horton) Subject: Re: News 2.10 Problem To: pur-ee!malcolm I have noticed notes doing this lately. I think there must be a bug in 2.10 causing -f not to work properly. I seem to recall a similar bug involving net.announce. I'm enclosing a diff from 2.10's inews.c to the current one - please try this out and let me know if it fixes the problem. Mark *** oinews.c Fri Nov 18 17:15:17 1983 --- inews.c Fri Sep 2 10:39:32 1983 *************** *** 2,8 * inews - insert, receive, and transmit news articles. */ ! static char *SccsId = "@(#)inews.c 2.29 5/3/83"; #include "iparams.h" --- 2,8 ----- * inews - insert, receive, and transmit news articles. */ ! static char *SccsId = "%W% %G%"; #include "iparams.h" *************** *** 297,303 /* Allow the user to supply some headers. */ hread(&header, stdin, FALSE); /* But there are certain fields we won't let him specify. */ ! if (header.from) strcpy(forgedname, header.from); header.from[0] = '\0'; header.path[0] = '\0'; --- 297,303 ----- /* Allow the user to supply some headers. */ hread(&header, stdin, FALSE); /* But there are certain fields we won't let him specify. */ ! if (header.from[0]) strcpy(forgedname, header.from); header.from[0] = '\0'; header.path[0] = '\0'; *************** *** 308,314 ngcat(header.nbuf); } if (forgedname[0]) { ! gensender(&header, forgedname); sprintf(header.sender, "%s@%s%s", username, SYSNAME, MYDOMAIN); } else { --- 308,315 ----- ngcat(header.nbuf); } if (forgedname[0]) { ! strcpy(header.from, forgedname); ! strcpy(header.path, forgedname); sprintf(header.sender, "%s@%s%s", username, SYSNAME, MYDOMAIN); } else {