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Aucbvax.4228 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Mon Oct 5 12:20:29 1981 MMDF >From decvax!duke!unc!smb@Berkeley Mon Oct 5 12:14:57 1981 In-real-life: Steven M. Bellovin

What ever happened to the spirit of brevity that makes UNIX so pleasant? I just recevied -- for the second time -- the following:

From mmdf@brl Sat Oct 3 16:42:08 1981 Via: duke!decvax!ucbvax!ucbvax Date: 3 Oct 81 9:05:34-EDT (Sat) Original-From: MEMO SERVICE (MMDF) <MMDF@BRL> Full-Name: MMDF Subject: Mail not yet sent Via: Ing70.BerkNet (V3.45 [10/2/81]); 3 October 1981 06:09-PDT (Saturday) To: decvax!duke!unc!smb at Berkeley

Your message has not yet been fully delivered, after 2 days.

This usually is due to service interruptions at the receiving machine. Less often, there are problems with the communications system. In any event, mail is retained in the queue for up to 11 days.

Your message has NOT YET been sent to the following addressee(s):

wizards at Ll-Asg

A copy HAS been sent to the following addressee(s):

mike dpk at Bmd70 gene at Bmd70 geo at Bmd70 howard at Bmd70 jcp at Bmd70 mike at Bmd70 rsm at Bmd70 steve at Bmd70

Your message begins as follows:

Via: sri-csl.Arpanet, Wed Sep 30 21:43:58 Mail-from: ARPANET host SRI-UNIX rcvd at 30-Sep-81 1441-PDT Date: 29 Sep 1981 20:08:23-PDT From: decvax!duke!unc!smb at Berkeley To: decvax!duke!unc!unix-wizards at Berkeley, decvax!duke!unc!shannon at Berkeley Subject: Re: bug related to mounted file systems and .. Via: Ucb-C70.ArpaNet; 30 Sep 81 14:35-PDT Via: Sri-Warf; 1 Oct 81 21:51-EDT

In-real-life: Steven M. Bellovin

Bill Shannon's second bug is not confined to mounted file systems; it ...

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