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Aucbvax.4267 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Tue Oct 6 02:36:14 1981 MMDF Warning Messages /// Diagnostics in General >From mike.bmd70@BRL Tue Oct 6 02:31:50 1981 Steven - Sorry that you were the receipient of the dunning notice. Our mail system is having some problems right now, and we have blasted rejection notices at quite a number of people. Software will always have problems.... (BTW, I find the 10 newlines at the end of your letters *most* annoying. Yep, another bug!).

At least in the case of mail systems, a certain amount of verbosity is to be expected -- nay, even desired! I would certainly rather have an explicit indication of where the trouble lies than some overly terse message. In the network environment, there is so much going on that error messages will tend to get lengthy. HOWEVER, MMDF certainly goes *much* beyond the necessary level of verbosity. It still remains the best UNIX-based mail system I could find. Sigh. -Mike

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