silver (05/06/83)
Relay-Version:version B 3/9/83; site harpo.UUCP Message-ID:<2194@csu-cs.UUCP> Date:Fri, 6-May-83 11:03:12 EDT What happened here? I've been getting one of these for almost every article I post, for months now. I figured someone closer to the source would notice and take action, but apparently not. I can't even decipher who I might mail to about the problem! Here's what I got in the mail, less the uninteresting stuff: From ucbvax!COMSAT@MIT-MC Thu May 5 05:27:50 1983 remote from hplabs From: Communications Satellite <ucbvax!COMSAT@MIT-MC> Received: by HP-VENUS via UUCP; 5 May 1983 05:27:47-PDT (Thu) Received: from MIT-MC.ARPA by UCBVAX.ARPA (3.339/3.27) id AA09371; 5 May 83 01:28:02 PDT (Thu) To: hplabs!hao!csu-cs!silver@BERKELEY Via: uucp host ucbvax; 5 May 1983 01:28:02-??? (Thu) Subject: Msg of Thursday, 5 May 1983 00:34 EDT Message-Id: <8305050828.AA09371@UCBVAX.ARPA> FAILED: miyata at MIT-AI; Host appears to be permanently down or not accepting mail. Failed message follows: ------- To: physics @ Sri-Unix From: hplabs!hao!csu-cs!silver @ Ucb-Vax Received: from Usenet.uucp by SRI-Unix.uucp with rs232; 4 May 83 20:16-PDT and so on... I personally don't care so much what's going on, but I wouldn't mind seeing somebody fix it! Alan Silverstein, Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Systems Division, Colorado ucbvax!hplabs!hpfcld!ajs, 303-226-3800 x3053, N 40 31'31" W 105 00'43"
furuta (05/13/83)
Forgive me if an answer already circulated to this problem--we are just beginning to get news in again after multiple outages almost totally cut us off from the net. The question was about a COMSAT@MIT-MC error message concerning an article probably posted to net.physics. This is a fairly unimportant error warning. What's happened is that your message has been gatewayed onto an Arpanet mailing list (physics@Sri-Unix). One of the recipients of this list (probably miyata@MIT-MC) has a forwarding which tries to redirect his mail to MIT-AI (miyata@MIT-AI). Since MIT-AI is permanently dead, the message cannot be delivered and is returned to the sender. Messages of this sort usually mean that one or more names on an Arpanet mailing list are invalid for one reason or another. If it's convenient, you can usually forward them to <name>-request@host (in this case physics-request@sri-unix) and there is some chance that there will actually be someone there to receive the message and that the person will act to remove the problem.