frechett@boulder.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-) (01/05/91)
I want to know if anyone else just had to wade through 60 repeats of old messages, apparently bounced off of handhelds@gac.com which seems to be somehow tied to Apple and a couple braindead VMS machines.. You will know what I mean if you had to go through 2-3 pages of headers before each actual messages. Anyone? ian -- -=Runaway Daemon=-
bson@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Jan Brittenson) (01/05/91)
In a posting of [4 Jan 91 19:46:59 GMT] frechett@snoopy.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-) writes: > I want to know if anyone else just had to wade through 60 repeats of > old messages, apparently bounced off of handhelds@gac.com Yeah, well `k' kills them all in `rn', since they all have the same Subject. I think the problem is that qm.apple.com (or something at Apple handling mail to QM) returns their errors to whoever is in the From: field, not who (or what) is in the Sender: field, or Errors-To: (is that a valid RFC822 field?) I think the Vaxen are innocent. This time. -- Jan Brittenson bson@ai.mit.edu
hp48sx@wuarchive.wustl.edu (HP48SX Archive Maintainer) (01/05/91)
I also got all the messages. The problems is that there is a gateway for those with no news access. And then it is send with the address that distributes to this list as sender. So a reply will be distributed here. I hope the server can/gateway can be modified to check the body of the mail for those typical error messages, or check if the sender is the postmaster on some machine, and if it is then only send them to /dev/nul -- ******************************************************* Povl H. Pedersen hp48sx@wuarchive.wustl.edu HP48sx archive maintainer
dan@gacvx2.gac.edu (01/05/91)
In article <1991Jan4.194659.22383@csn.org>, frechett@boulder.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-) writes: > > I want to know if anyone else just had to wade through 60 repeats of > old messages, apparently bounced off of handhelds@gac.com which seems to > be somehow tied to Apple and a couple braindead VMS machines.. You will know > what I mean if you had to go through 2-3 pages of headers before each actual > messages. Anyone? > > ian > -- > > -=Runaway Daemon=- Good thing I caught the other 100 or so... I have removed the offending address at Apple from the mailing list. HANDHELDS@GAC.EDU is a mailing list with a bidirectional gateway to the COMP.SYS.HANDHELDS newsgroup. My VAXes say that they are not responsible for the headers, although they are willing to take some of the blaim for not removing them, and passing them into the newsgroup. Anybody have their handheld calculator doing e-mail or e-news yet? :-) -- Dan Boehlke Internet: dan@gac.edu Campus Network Manager BITNET: dan@gacvax1.bitnet Gustavus Adolphus College St. Peter, MN 56082 USA Phone: (507)933-7596
dan@gacvx2.gac.edu (01/05/91)
GOOD NEWS!!!!! And thanks... Thanks to the suggestions of several readers of COMP.SYS.HANDHELDS, and HANDHELDS@GAC.EDU, I have modified the "mailing list<-->usenet" gateway to not pass messages from the users SYSTEM, ROOT, MAILER, and POSTMASTER into the newsgroup, they will be instead sent to the POSTMASTER@GAC.EDU. Turns out it was an easy fix, as the program I was using to impliment the gateway already had the filtering built into it. I just wasn't using it. Turns out VAXes are good for something after all :-). Thanks again to the people who caused me to think about it, even "winter@apple.com" who's messages have been bouncing back and into the newsgroup. -- Dan Boehlke Internet: dan@gac.edu Campus Network Manager BITNET: dan@gacvax1.bitnet Gustavus Adolphus College St. Peter, MN 56082 USA Phone: (507)933-7596
gjf00@duts.ccc.amdahl.com (Gordon Freedman) (01/08/91)
In article <1991Jan4.194659.22383@csn.org> frechett@snoopy.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-) writes: > >I want to know if anyone else just had to wade through 60 repeats of >old messages, apparently bounced off of handhelds@gac.com which seems to >be somehow tied to Apple and a couple braindead VMS machines.. You will know >what I mean if you had to go through 2-3 pages of headers before each actual >messages. Anyone? > > ian >-- > >-=Runaway Daemon=- Yes. I have seen many of these. -- Gordon Freedman: gjf00@duts.ccc.amdahl.com Disclaimer: My opinions! Not my employers!